A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
JEAN COCTEAUAn artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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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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