"A film is a petrified fountain of thought." — Jean Cocteau
"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."
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Jean Cocteau
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158 Quotes by Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau has 158 quotes on this site.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He…
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies.…
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which…
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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