Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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