Jean Cocteau Quotes

Jean Cocteau (67)

Birth:	5th July, 1889
Death:	11th October, 1963
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Dramatist, Novelist, Playwriter, Poet

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

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• Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

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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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• All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

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• Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

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• The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.

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

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• I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

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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.

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• One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

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• The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

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• I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

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  The prettiest dresses are warn to be taken off.

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  The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

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• A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

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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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• The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

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• The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

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• When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

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• Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

  Jean Cocteau