We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
JEAN COCTEAUThe joy of the young is to disobey.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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