The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
JEAN COCTEAUThe dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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