Art is science in the flesh.
JEAN COCTEAUI 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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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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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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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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