Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
JEAN COCTEAUStyle is a simple way of saying complicated things.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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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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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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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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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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