Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
JEAN COCTEAULying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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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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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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