Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAUFrench people are Italian people in a bad mood.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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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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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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