What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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