Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAULying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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