Art is science in the flesh.
JEAN COCTEAUA true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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