The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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