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Jean Cocteau
Profession : Director
Birth : July 5, 1889
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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
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
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
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Jean Cocteau
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
Jean Cocteau
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
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
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Jean Cocteau
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
Jean Cocteau
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Jean Cocteau
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