A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
JEAN COCTEAULiving is a horizontal fall.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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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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