My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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