I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
JEAN COCTEAULiving is a horizontal fall.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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