Art is science in the flesh.
JEAN COCTEAUThe eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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 eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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