Jean Cocteau Quotes

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• We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

  Jean Cocteau

  Angel, Shelter, Guardian

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

  Jean Cocteau

  Country, Italian, Europe

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• One must not mistake majority for truth.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mistake, Majority

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• Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

  Jean Cocteau

  Thinking, Mirrors, Appearance

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• What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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  Criticism, Criticize, Critics

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fashion, Simple, Style

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• There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

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  Proof Of Love, Proof

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• The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

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  Laughing, Healthy, Soul

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• Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

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  What Matters, Past Present Future, Earth

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

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  Art, Conscious, Art Is

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• An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Speak, Plant

  Newsweek, May 16, 1955.

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• The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Kind, Prison

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• If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dream, Becoming, Poet

  Jean Cocteau (1964). “The journals of Jean Cocteau”

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  I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dog, Home, Cat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Living is a horizontal fall.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fall, Horizontal

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• A little too much is just enough for me.

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  Littles, Too Much, Enough

  Jean Cocteau (1987). “Paris album: 1900-1914”

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• We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

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  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Remark after his election to Académie Française, 1955.

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• The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

  Jean Cocteau

  Teaching, Eye

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

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  Over You, Despair, Finesse

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• The joy of the young is to disobey

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  Joy, Youth, Young

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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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  Play, Luxury, Comfort

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• The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

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• I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

  Jean Cocteau

  Veins, Language, Wave

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• Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Lying, Reality

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• Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

  Jean Cocteau

  Glances

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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