If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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And 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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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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