Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
JEAN COCTEAUFrench people are Italian people in a bad mood.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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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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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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