The only way to kill death is through photography.
JEAN COCTEAUThe public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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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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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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