When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
JEAN COCTEAUAnd now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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