Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
JEAN COCTEAUI have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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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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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Never 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.
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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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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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