Jean Cocteau

(10 votes)   The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

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(355 votes)   If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Jean Cocteau
1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(281 votes)   A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

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1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(139 votes)   Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

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1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(138 votes)   If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Jean Cocteau

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(136 votes)   The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

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1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(125 votes)   Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

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1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(97 votes)   What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model. With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.

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1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(96 votes)   Art is science made clear.

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1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(49 votes)   A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

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(49 votes)   An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

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(48 votes)   A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

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(48 votes)   Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

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(43 votes)   All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

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(39 votes)   Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

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