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Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

French Director

Born: Jul 5, 1889

Died: Oct 11, 1963

Art Death Me Only Poet You

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

Love Home Soul Cats Pet Become Enjoy Visible Because Little

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. Jean Cocteau

Art Marriage Unconscious Conscious

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. Jean Cocteau

Man Living Must Artist

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

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. Jean Cocteau

Sad Great News You Tell Piece Dead Am

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

You Criticizes Cultivate Public

A film is a petrified fountain of thought. Jean Cocteau

Thought Petrified Film Fountain

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. Jean Cocteau

Draw Unravel Poets Tie Up Handwriting Again Then Differently

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? Jean Cocteau

Success Luck Believe Else Those Must Like How Explain

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. Jean Cocteau

Work Plant About Like Talk His Discuss Artist Asking

Life is a horizontal fall. Jean Cocteau

Life Life Is A Fall Horizontal

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

Poet Worst Admired Through Misunderstood Tragedy Being Being Misunderstood

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

Everybody Paris Nobody Content Wants Actor Spectator

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

Friendship God Best Me Mercy Lost Took Seven Say Had He Another Without Friends Times Which Sent Lent Realizing

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

Death Me Live Rather Within How Am Trying Teach Here

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. Jean Cocteau

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. Jean Cocteau

Only Poetry Indispensable Knew

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. Jean Cocteau

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed. Jean Cocteau

Poet Admiration Never He Wants Ask Believed

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. Jean Cocteau

Wisdom Madness Extreme Calls Limit Public

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