“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
On the autobiographical nature of his films, in The Atlantic (December 1965)
“There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies”
Source: Art and Lies
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