Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
JEAN COCTEAUWhatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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