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Jean Cocteau

Quote of Jean Cocteau - One must be a living man...


Biography - Jean Cocteau:

French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1963
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.



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Quotes for: artist


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Quotes for: artist


Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.





The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.





Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.





Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.





Great artists have no country.











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Jean Cocteau also said...


Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.





Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.





When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.





Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far you can go too far.





The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.





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, they finish by loading honors on your head.












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