Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAUMan 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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