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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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.
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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.
Jean Cocteau
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
Jean Cocteau
Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
Jean Cocteau
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
Jean Cocteau
The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
Jean Cocteau
My only politics have been friendship.
Jean Cocteau
Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
Jean Cocteau
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
Jean Cocteau
My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
Jean Cocteau
A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
Jean Cocteau
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
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
Jean Cocteau
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
Jean Cocteau
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
Jean Cocteau
