Art is science in the flesh.
JEAN COCTEAUNothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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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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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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