The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
JEAN COCTEAUFrench people are Italian people in a bad mood.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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