A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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