Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
Jean Cocteau
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- Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
- An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
- Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
- Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
- Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.