Jean Cocteau Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

  Jean Cocteau

  Editors, Criticism, Theatre

  "If your identity is inscribed for you from the outside, it’s even more difficult to escape". Interview with Stephanie LaCava, logger.believermag.com. July 1, 2014.

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Criticism, Criticize, Critics

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

• The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

  Jean Cocteau

  Yesterday, Criticism, Today

  Jean Cocteau (1926*). “A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including "Cock and Harlequin", "Professional Secrets", and Other Critical Essays”

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