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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
Man
Myth
Few
Alcohol
Unable
Lies
Seeks
Give
He
Withdraw
Him
Himself
Comfort
Does
His
Escape
Any
Inaccuracy
Means
Moments
Disposal
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau
Death
Day
Me
Walk
Birth
Hurrying
Toward
Since
Without
Began
Walking
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
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
Beautiful
Art
Time
Fashion
Ugly
Become
Other
More
Beautiful Things
Frequently
Always
Hand
Which
Produces
Things
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
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
You
Too
Tact
Knowing
Without
Audacity
How
How Far
Go
Going
Far
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
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau
Consists
Seeing
Habit
Prevents
True
Revealing
Covered
Surprising
Which
Realism
Us
Keeps
Things
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
You
Youth
Light
Job
Rest
Poet
Clean
Take
Spontaneity
Polish
Freshness
Effect
Did
Same
Done
Literature
Commonplace
Produces
Originality
Originally
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
Success
Art
Reward
Intoxication
Unable
Bad
Give
Fame
Up
Artists
Many
Why
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
You
Try
Free
Poison
First
Society
Too
Honors
Lock
Finish
Beat
Head
Instinct
Fails
Truly
Up
Begins
Trying
Anybody
Your
Who
Nearly
Societies
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Jean Cocteau
Death
Day
You
Every Day
Will
Mirror
Seen
Every
See
Never
Glass
Like
Look
Bees
Hive
Working
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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