- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jean Cocteau Quotes
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
- Faster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
- Listens
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
- Misunderstood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Conscious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Nose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
- Content
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
- Horizontal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a horizontal fall.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
- Handwriting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
- Nov 07, 2020
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
- Beard
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
- Masterpiece
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
- Knew
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
- Fountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
- Infinity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
- Pastime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020