Jean Cocteau Quotes

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• We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

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  Angel, Shelter, Guardian

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

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  Thinking, Mirrors, Appearance

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• French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

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  Country, Italian, Europe

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• Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

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  Fashion, Simple, Style

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• One must not mistake majority for truth.

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  Mistake, Majority

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• What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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  Criticism, Criticize, Critics

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

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  Laughing, Healthy, Soul

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• An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

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  Art, Speak, Plant

  Newsweek, May 16, 1955.

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• Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

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  What Matters, Past Present Future, Earth

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

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  Dream, Becoming, Poet

  Jean Cocteau (1964). “The journals of Jean Cocteau”

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• There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

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  Proof Of Love, Proof

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• Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

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  Art, Conscious, Art Is

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• Living is a horizontal fall.

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  Fall, Horizontal

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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  I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

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  Dog, Home, Cat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

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  Art, Kind, Prison

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• Find first, seek later.

  Jean Cocteau

  Firsts

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• A little too much is just enough for me.

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  Littles, Too Much, Enough

  Jean Cocteau (1987). “Paris album: 1900-1914”

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• We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

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  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Remark after his election to Académie Française, 1955.

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• The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

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  Liars, Lying, Poetry

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• The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

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• Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

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  World

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• I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

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  Reality, Illusion, Mythology

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• Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

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  Art, Lying, Reality

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• Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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  Death, Ugly Things, Dying

  "Postambule". "La Fin du Potomac". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1939.

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• The only way to kill death is through photography.

  Jean Cocteau

  Photography, Way

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