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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive

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

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Jean Cocteau
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Ordinary
Author
Jean Cocteau
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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Jean Cocteau
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Art
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. – Twyla Tharp

Category:
Art

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Category:
Art

I dont watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. – Stephen Fry

Category:
Art

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Art

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill

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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. – Helen Keller

Category:
Tolerance

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a fathers protection. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
parenting

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. – David Allan Coe

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