Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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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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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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