If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
JEAN COCTEAUThe reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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 ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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