Quote #40

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

More from Jean Cocteau

  1. The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
  2. Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
  3. All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
  4. The extreme limit of wisdom - that's what the public calls madness.
  5. An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
  6. If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas .
  7. One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
  8. There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

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