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Listen carefully to first cri...

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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I only fear the death of othe...

I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Vivre est une chute horizonta...

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Lying is the only art form th...

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Nothing ever gets anywhere. T...

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Never do what a specialist ca...

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Man seeks to escape himself i...

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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I believe in luck: how else c...

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Film will only became an art ...

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Since the day of my birth, my...

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

What the public criticizes in...

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Here I am trying to live, or ...

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Commissions suit me. They set...

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Style is a simple way of sayi...

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

There is always a period when...

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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

All good music resembles some...

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

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The Louvre is a morgue; you g...

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

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The worst tragedy for a poet ...

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

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I love cats because I enjoy m...

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Life is a horizontal fall. ...

Life is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

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