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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Jean Cocteau

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
JEAN COCTEAU

Art Moral Praise
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Comfortable Fear Luxury Money Play Reward
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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Death Mirror See Yourself
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Artist Copy Job Order Original
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Alcohol Comfortable Drugs Escape Lying Man Moments Myth Seek
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Beginning Born Death Deep Life Myself Perspective Rush Walk
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
JEAN COCTEAU

Art Lying Preference Reality
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Difference Follow Myself Road Room
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
JEAN COCTEAU

Art Past Religious Time
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.
JEAN COCTEAU

Difficult Earth Live Serious

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