The joy of the young is to disobey.
JEAN COCTEAUFilm will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible 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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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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