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36 Jean Cocteau Quotes & Sayings
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36 Jean Cocteau Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 5 July 1889. Died: 11 October 1963 |
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Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau
Artist
Work
Plant
Horticulture
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We have a tendency to judge others according to ourselves.
Jean Cocteau
We
Tendency
Judge
Ourselves
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau
Poet
Asks
Admiration
Believed
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.
Jean Cocteau
Characteristics
Dream
Nothing
Surprises
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
Poet
Liar
Speaks
Truth
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What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way.
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What
Style
Complicated
Simple
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau
Film
Fountain
Thought
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Living is a horizontal fall.
Jean Cocteau
Living
Fall
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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
Live
Teach
Death
How
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you
Jean Cocteau
Public
Criticizes
You
Cultivate
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Art is science made clear.
Jean Cocteau
Art
Science
Clear
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Thing
Love
Proof
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau
Poet
Invent
Listens
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
Jean Cocteau
I
Burning
Myself
Always
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau
Art
Marriage
Conscious
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
Jean Cocteau
Excruciating
Unbeliever
Spirit
Religious
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I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
Jean Cocteau
Willing
Tolerated
Love
Liberty
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
Greatest
Literature
Dictionary
Order
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
True
Poet
Scent
Roses
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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.
Jean Cocteau
Art
Beautiful
Fashion
Time
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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
Jean Cocteau
Mythology
History
Truth
Reality
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jean Cocteau
Uniform
Hide
Heavy heart
Show
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Jean Cocteau
Statues
Great men
Stones
Lifetime
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
Music
Something
Feelings
Motivated
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
Jean Cocteau
Self realizations
Learn
Unaware
Instincts
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau
True realism
Revealing
Habit
Prevents
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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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Fear
Death
People
Love
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
Jean Cocteau
Yourself
Life
Death
Work
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.
Jean Cocteau
Poetry
Hope
Achieve
Life
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Youth
Assert
Conviction
Nothing
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
Worst
Tragedy
Poet
Admired
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He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.
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He
Affected
Insult
Infected
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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Emotion
Work
Art
Value
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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Day
Birth
Death
Walk
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The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.
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Map
Life
Road
Choice
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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We
Shelter
Angel
Guardians
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