The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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