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The hot hall full of painted g...

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The ultimate politeness in art...

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Understand that some of your e...

Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

What is style? For many people...

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Artists can no more speak abou...

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Art produces ugly things which...

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Lying is the only art form tha...

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

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

A little too much is just enou...

A little too much is just enough for me.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Poetry is indispensable --if I...

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Appreciation of art is a moral...

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

It was the East that should ha...

It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

It seems to me that invisibili...

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Celebrity: I picture myself as...

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The preservation of friendship...

The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

My only politics have been fri...

My only politics have been friendship.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The artist is a kind of prison...

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

In exiling myself I am not exi...

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

French people are Italian peop...

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

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

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

The poet, by composing poems, ...

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

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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....