5 Jean Cocteau Quotes on Identity

Jean Cocteau quotes on identity

3. I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

34. What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

56. It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

59. People would say to Al Brown: 'You are not a boxer. You are a dancer.' He laughed at this, and won.

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.