Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Cocteau
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
fame success art
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.
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
music art
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.
history theend
Accuracy is vexing to a crowd of would-be fantasizers. Hasn't our age coined the term escapism, when in fact the only way to escape oneself is to allow oneself to be invaded?
age
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
help
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
character
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
man
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
literature order
The joy of youth is to disobey, but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
trouble order
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
extremes life wisdom the-public
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.. The craving for opium can be endured in a car.
car system
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the perform-ance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
poetry religion
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