Art is science in the flesh.
JEAN COCTEAUPicasso 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 dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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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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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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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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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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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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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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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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