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Jean Cocteau Quotes

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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) Living is a horizontal fall  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) I am burning myself up and will always do so  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) May the devil himself splatter you with dung  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) A little too much is just enough for me  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) And history becomes legend and legend becomes history  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) Art is science made flesh  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) It is not inspiration; it is expiration  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) Everyone’s pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) 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 Quotes) Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.  (Jean Cocteau Quotes) All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.  (Jean Cocteau Quotes)
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