Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAUIf it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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 have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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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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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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 poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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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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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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