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There are 60 quotes for the author Jean Cocteau

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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.
Subject: Fashion

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Subject: Poetry

Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go to far.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

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