Jean Cocteau Quotes - Page 9

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• Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.

  Jean Cocteau

  Causes, Protection, Printed

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

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• And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

  Jean Cocteau

  History, Legends

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• Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

  Jean Cocteau

  Ridiculous, Relation, Do Not Fear

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

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• It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

  Jean Cocteau

  Invisibility, Elegance, Provision

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• Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

  Jean Cocteau

  Running, Legs, Fame

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• Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

  Jean Cocteau

  Photography, Silence, Cry

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• The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

  Jean Cocteau

  Friendship, Cutting, Preservation

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• One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Artist, Men

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

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• The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

  Jean Cocteau

  Musical, Noses, Pieces

  "An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 130, 1981.

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• I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.

  Jean Cocteau

  Loyalty, Children, Light

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• Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Moving, Looks

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

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• The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Philosophy, History

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

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• The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Soldier, Hot

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• If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Comfort, Asceticism, Height

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

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• The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.

  Jean Cocteau

  Song, Military, Skins

  "A Thing or Two about Music". Book by Nicolas Slonimsky, 1948.

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