Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
JEAN COCTEAUThe public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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