The only way to kill death is through photography.
JEAN COCTEAUPicasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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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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Poetry 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.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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