Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
JEAN COCTEAUThe joy of the young is to disobey.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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