Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
JEAN COCTEAUDo as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
JEAN COCTEAUThe only way to kill death is through photography.
JEAN COCTEAUAppreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
JEAN COCTEAUCultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
JEAN COCTEAUFrench people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAUFilm will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAUHere I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
JEAN COCTEAUWe must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
JEAN COCTEAUOne must not mistake majority for truth.
JEAN COCTEAUI love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
JEAN COCTEAUAn original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
JEAN COCTEAUMay the devil himself splatter you with dung.
JEAN COCTEAUMy method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
JEAN COCTEAULying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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