Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Jean Cocteau Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Jean Cocteau Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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.
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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.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Life is a horizontal fall.
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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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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.
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