3 Jean Cocteau Quotes on Human nature

Jean Cocteau quotes on human nature

43. If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas .

73. Allow the power of the soul to grow as flagrant as the power of sex.

84. Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal... unnable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort, the trifling feeling of escape experienced at a masked ball. He distances himself from that which he feels and sees. He invents. He transfigures. He mythifies. He creates. He fancies himself an artist. He imitates, in his small way, the painters he claims are mad.