Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
JEAN COCTEAULying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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