Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
JEAN COCTEAUThe ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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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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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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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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