Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
JEAN COCTEAUYou have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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