Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
JEAN COCTEAUAll good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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