May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
JEAN COCTEAUListen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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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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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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