Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAUEverything 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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