The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
JEAN COCTEAUThe speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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