Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
JEAN COCTEAUStyle is a simple way of saying complicated things.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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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.
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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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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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