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Jean Cocteau

Quote of Jean Cocteau - Beauty cannot be recognized with a...


Biography - Jean Cocteau:

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

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.



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Quotes for: beauty


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Quotes about beauty:


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.





All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.





What beauty is, I know not.





I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.











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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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