Quote #41

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

More from Jean Cocteau

  1. In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
  2. The extreme limit of wisdom - that's what the public calls madness.
  3. The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
  4. If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas .
  5. All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
  6. There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
  7. An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
  8. We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

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