French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAUAnything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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