Art is science in the flesh.
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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