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.
JEAN COCTEAUThe prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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 prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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