The only way to kill death is through photography.
JEAN COCTEAUA true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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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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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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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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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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