I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
JEAN COCTEAUThe joy of the young is to disobey.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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