Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAUWhat the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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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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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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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