Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAUThe artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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