The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
JEAN COCTEAUMirrors should think longer before they reflect.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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