French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAUThe ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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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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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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