In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Quote by Jean Cocteau

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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This...

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This...

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so...

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so...

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death...

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death...

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it...

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it...

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss...

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

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

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

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do...

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do...

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.