Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
JEAN COCTEAUCultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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