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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau
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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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The cinema is death at work.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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