If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
JEAN COCTEAUStyle is a simple way of saying complicated things.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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