Poetry is a religion with no hope.
JEAN COCTEAUMirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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