I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
JEAN COCTEAUFrench people are Italian people in a bad mood.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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