The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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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 speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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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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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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Art is science in the flesh.
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