Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAUOne 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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