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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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