I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony. |
I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life. |
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. |
I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see. |
I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me. |
In 1934 people were crazy and there was great enthusiasm for Hitler. We had to try and find that with our camera. |
My desire to dive with an oxygen cylinder was so intensive that I decided to use a trick. Registering as Helene Jacob, I lied about my age: instead of 1902, I wrote 1922 in the application forms. My rejuvenation not withstanding, the scuba instructor eyed me skeptically; he was probably thinking: She'll never make it. |
Reality doesn't interest me. |
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world. |
They killed me. I am a ghost. |
Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life. |
To my dear Fuhrer with deepest admiration. |
We saw all the Gypsies that played in 'Lowlands' again after the war, ... Nothing happened to them. |
Your deeds exceed the power of human imagination. They are without equal in the history of mankind. How can we (the German people) ever thank you? |