Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
JEAN COCTEAUAn original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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 know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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