What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAUEvery day in the mirror I watch death at work.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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