The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
JEAN COCTEAUOne of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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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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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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