3 de enero de 2010

Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963)


- A film is a petrified fountain of thought




- An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original


- Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.


- Art is not a pastime but a priesthood


- Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time


- A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses


- Everything 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.


- Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper


- I am a lie who always speaks the truth.


- I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead


- In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator


- Life is a horizontal fall


- Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for


- The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed

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