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Writing Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't.…
- The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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