Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAUDo as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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