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.
JEAN COCTEAUWe shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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