Jean Cocteau Quotes - Page 2

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• The joy of the young is to disobey

  Jean Cocteau

  Joy, Youth, Young

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Teaching, Eye

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

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

  Jean Cocteau

  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.

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  Photography, Way

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• 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.

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• May the devil himself splatter you with dung.

  Jean Cocteau

  Devil, May

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• Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

  Jean Cocteau

  Over You, Despair, Finesse

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• Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Fashion

  New York World Telegram & Sun, August 21, 1960.

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• It is not inspiration; it is expiration.

  Jean Cocteau

  Inspiration

  Jean Cocteau (2013). “The Difficulty of Being”, p.46, Melville House

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• The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

  Jean Cocteau

  Wisdom, Mind, Limits

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

  Jean Cocteau

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "On Invisibility". "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1953.

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• Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

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  Art, Priesthood, Art Is

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• Poetry is a religion with no hope.

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  No Hope, Poetry Is

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• A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

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  Nurse, Rose, Poetry

  Jean Cocteau (1926*). “A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including "Cock and Harlequin", "Professional Secrets", and Other Critical Essays”

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• Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

  Jean Cocteau

  Teaching, Recovery, Here I Am

  Arthur King Peters, Jean Cocteau, André Gide (1973). “Jean Cocteau and André Gide: An Abrasive Friendship”, New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press

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• Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.

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  Death, Work, Mirrors

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

  Jean Cocteau

  World

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• Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

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  Knowing, Audacity, Courtesy

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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

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  Appreciation, Art, Moral

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• Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

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  Assessment, Mystery, Organized

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• Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

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  Fall, Life Is, Horizontal

  'Opium' (1930) p. 37

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• You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.

  Jean Cocteau

  Play, Luxury, Comfort

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• Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

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  Miracle, Baths, Said

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• I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love

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  People

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• My only politics have been friendship.

  Jean Cocteau

  Friendship, Has Beens

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