Jean Cocteau: Citáty v angličtine (page 2)

“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”

“The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.”

“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”

“Art is science made clear.”

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”

“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart?
It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.”

“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”

“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”

“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”

“I am burning myself up and will always do so.”

“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.”

“All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms”

“I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.”

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”

“I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.”

“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.”

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”

“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.”