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.
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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