We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
JEAN COCTEAUStyle is a simple way of saying complicated things.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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