It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
JEAN COCTEAUBeauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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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 public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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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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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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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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