Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
JEAN COCTEAUNever do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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