You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
JEAN COCTEAUBeauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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