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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 049f69c | The joy of youth is to disobey, but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 72b6c64 | What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 9a6cf82 | Art is science made clear. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| f76fdef | One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 33db40a | An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 291bce8 | The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 6e24ed7 | In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 8a1b9fb | Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| b3ca10f | The extreme limit of wisdom -- that's what the public calls madness. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 3830a7a | There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 49e3ff6 | We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| d95e90f | Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| e8dec1c | A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 4795173 | Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 664dea0 | Life is a horizontal fall. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 542e1b9 | It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 265c329 | Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 8d60119 | One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| a291670 | Hasten slowly. Run faster than beauty. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| f367460 | Be helpful, even if it compromises you. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| c509a78 | Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 5b0cefa | He who is affected by an insult is infected by it. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| a6615e0 | Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| d53cc74 | Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 6745113 | Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| e637f93 | Allow the power of the soul to grow as flagrant as the power of sex. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| aa2c7dd | Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 484a5a3 | Hate only hatred. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 877dd64 | Disavow anyone who provokes or accepts the extermination of a race to which he does not belong. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| af256d8 | Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 02b9f2d | Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 6a18600 | Know that your work speaks only to those on the same wavelength as you. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| aff7e48 | Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| df2494b | The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby. | Jean Drapeau | ||
| 0a33b9b | Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome. | Jean Drapeau | ||
| 3b2fe78 | What the masses want are monuments. | Jean Drapeau | ||
| 8086836 | No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. | Jean Fautrier | ||
| 2688174 | This violence is a calm that disturbs you. | Jean Genet | ||
| 0a2179f | But I would adore that thief who is my mother. | Jean Genet | ||
| fa48d61 | If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him! | Jean Genet | ||
| b73974c | I suffered at the time from an ugliness I no longer find on my childhood face. | Jean Genet | ||
| 8e9fd8d | Fierce and pure, I was the theater of a fairyland restored to life. | Jean Genet | ||
| e6779fe | To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. | Jean Genet | ||
| 8cf8860 | With homosexuality added, it would be sparkling, unassimilable. | Jean Genet |