One must not mistake majority for truth.
JEAN COCTEAUAn artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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When 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.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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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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