Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
JEAN COCTEAUWe must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Art is science in the flesh.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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