The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
JEAN COCTEAUI have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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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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