The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAUThe prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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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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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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