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What is line? It is life. A l...

What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model... With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Commissions suit me. They set...

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Here I am trying to live, or ...

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

What the public criticizes in...

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Since the day of my birth, my...

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Film will only became an art ...

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

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I believe in luck: how else c...

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Man seeks to escape himself i...

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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Never do what a specialist ca...

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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Nothing ever gets anywhere. T...

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Lying is the only art form th...

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Vivre est une chute horizonta...

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I only fear the death of othe...

I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Listen carefully to first cri...

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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I've always preferred mytholo...

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Such is the role of poetry. I...

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Wealth is an inborn attitude ...

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Picasso said that everything ...

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

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The speed of a runaway horse ...

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

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Without opium, plans, marriag...

Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....