When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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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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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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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