Jean Cocteau Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

  Jean Cocteau

  Editors, Criticism, Theatre

  "If your identity is inscribed for you from the outside, it’s even more difficult to escape". Interview with Stephanie LaCava, logger.believermag.com. July 1, 2014.

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Criticism, Criticize, Critics

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

• Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

  Jean Cocteau

  Unique, Firsts, Critics

• Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

  Jean Cocteau

  Appreciation, Art, Moral

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