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Found 87 quotes by Jean Cocteau .
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"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."
Jean Cocteau
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French Director
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"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say"
Jean Cocteau
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Poetry
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"When a work of art appears to be in advance of its period, it is really the period that has lagged behind the work of art"
Jean Cocteau
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Work
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"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
Jean Cocteau
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French Director Tragedy
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"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
Jean Cocteau
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French Director Man
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"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
Jean Cocteau
French Director

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"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."
Jean Cocteau
French Director
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"Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far."
Jean Cocteau
French Director
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"The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
Jean Cocteau
French Director
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"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."
Jean Cocteau
French Director
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"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."
Jean Cocteau
French Director
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"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."
Jean Cocteau
French Director

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