An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
JEAN COCTEAUMirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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