Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
JEAN COCTEAUWhat the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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 poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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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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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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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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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 have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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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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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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