Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAUNot only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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