Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
JEAN COCTEAUWhen 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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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 only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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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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