Quote #22
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
More from Jean Cocteau
- Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which alwa…
- The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
- Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
- You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
- The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- 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 i…
- What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.
- That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.