Art is science in the flesh.
JEAN COCTEAUA film is a petrified fountain of thought.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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