It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAUWhen 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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