Jean Cocteau

“Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”

“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.”

“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”

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

“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

“True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.”

“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”

“To be a poet is a fate, not a profession.”

“There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.”

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”

“The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.”

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time.”

“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”