What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way. - Jean Cocteau

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What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way.

Jean Cocteau

The Art of Cinema · April 1, 2000 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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About Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, painter, and filmmaker.

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Alternative Names: Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau • Zhan Kokto • Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau • Eugene Jean Maurice Cocteau

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Oscar Wilde Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Nietzsche Tom Stoppard W. H. Auden

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The obstinate miner
of the void
exploits
his fertile mine

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand … We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Le cinéma, c'est l'écriture moderne dont l'encre est la lumière.