The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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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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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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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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