Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
JEAN COCTEAUI feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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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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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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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 extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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