When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
JEAN COCTEAUMirrors should think longer before they reflect.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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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