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.
JEAN COCTEAUElegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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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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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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