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In two weeks, despite these no...

In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this journey which memory forgets. One must, when this is impossible, write or draw without responding to the romantic solicitations of pain, without enjoying suffering like music, tieing a pen to one's foot if need be, helping the doctors who can learn nothing from laziness.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Living is a horizontal fall....

Living is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Without opium, plans, marriage...

Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The speed of a runaway horse c...

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I have not looked at a newspap...

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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Enough of clouds, waves, aquar...

Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Youth is certain what it rejec...

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The joy of the young is to dis...

The joy of the young is to disobey

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The art of genius is knowing h...

The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Inspiration arrived as a resul...

Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I shall never forget what I sa...

I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

My little Renoirs. Matisse des...

My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

There are poets and there are ...

There are poets and there are grownups.

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I know that poetry is indispen...

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Keep braiding one's wavelength...

Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The only work of art which suc...

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The eyes of the dead are close...

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The world owes its enchantment...

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Art is science made flesh....

Art is science made flesh.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Stupidity is always astounding...

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

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