Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
JEAN COCTEAUThere’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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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 joy of the young is to disobey.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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Art is science in the flesh.
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