Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
JEAN COCTEAUMirrors should think longer before they reflect.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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