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Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
My only politics have been friendship.
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.
Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That is the part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by its source.
Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going too far.
Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Humorous Quote
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Happiness Quote
There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.
Friendship Quote
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
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