Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
JEAN COCTEAUThe extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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