Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAUMirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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One 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.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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