Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
JEAN COCTEAUOne must not mistake majority for truth.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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 speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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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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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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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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