What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAUI have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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