An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
JEAN COCTEAUThere’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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