If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
JEAN COCTEAUNever do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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