Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
JEAN COCTEAUWhatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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