An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
JEAN COCTEAULiving is a horizontal fall.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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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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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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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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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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