Jean Cocteau
Quotations
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“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.” -Jean Cocteau
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“The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.” -Jean Cocteau
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“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.” -Jean Cocteau
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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.” -Jean Cocteau
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“The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.” -Jean Cocteau
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“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.” -Jean Cocteau
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“Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.” -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
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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.” -Jean Cocteau
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“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” -Jean Cocteau
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“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” -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
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“I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.” -Jean Cocteau
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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.” -Jean Cocteau
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“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.” -Jean Cocteau
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“The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.” -Jean Cocteau
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“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.” -Jean Cocteau
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“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.” -Jean Cocteau
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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.” -Jean Cocteau
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