Quote #77
Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.
More from Jean Cocteau
- Disavow anyone who provokes or accepts the extermination of a race to which he does not belong.
- Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical.
- Hate only hatred.
- Know that your work speaks only to those on the same wavelength as you.
- Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
- Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
- Allow the power of the soul to grow as flagrant as the power of sex.
- The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is s…