A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
JEAN COCTEAUThe extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is science in the flesh.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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