French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAUOne must not mistake majority for truth.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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