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"In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator."
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). "Le Coq et l'Arlequin," Le Rappel à L'Ordre (1926). |
"Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far."
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. (Originally published 1918). Le Coq et l'Arlequin, Le Rappel à L'Ordre (1926), repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). |
"The extreme limit of wisdom—that's what the public calls madness."
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). "Le Coq et l'Arlequin," Le Rappel à L'Ordre (1926). |
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). "Le Coq et l'Arlequin," Le Rappel à L'Ordre (1926). |
"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). "Le Coq et l'Arlequin," Le Rappel à L'Ordre (1926). |
"Art is science made clear."
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). "Le Coq et l'Arlequin," Le Rappel à L'Ordre (1926). |
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 10 (1950). Le Mystère Laïc (1928). |
"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). Le Rappel à L'Ordre, "Le Coq et l'Arlequin" (1926). |
"The Louvre is like the morgue; one goes there to identify one's friends."
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. (Originally published 1922). Le Secret Professionnel, Le Rappel à L'Ordre (1926), repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). |
"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 (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). "Le Secret Professionnel," Le Rappel à l'Ordre (1926, 1922). |
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