The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
JEAN COCTEAUAn artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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