Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
JEAN COCTEAUTact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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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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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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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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