"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless."
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Source: Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers
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