We know that under the image revealed there is another which is truer to reality and under this image still another and yet again still another under this last one, right down to the true image of that reality, absolute, mysterious, which no one will ever see or perhaps right down to the decomposition of any image, of any reality.

As quoted by the interviewer from the introduction to an Italian publlication of Antonioni's screenplays. - Encountering Directors interview (1969)