Frases de Jean Cocteau

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“Sé tú mismo. El mundo adora lo original.”

“No cierres el círculo. Déjalo abierto. Descartes cierra el círculo. Pascal lo deja abierto. El triunfo de Rousseau sobre los enciclopedistas es haber dejado su círculo abierto cuando ellos cerraban los suyos.”

“No se debe confundir la verdad con la opinión de la mayoría.”

“La poesía es indispensable, me gustaría saber para qué.”

“Lo consiguieron porque no sabían que era imposible.”

“La vida es un sueño del que me despertará la muerte.”

“Crear es un subterfugio para hacerse visible después de la muerte.”

“Que comprenda quien pueda, soy una mentira que dice siempre la verdad.”

“Un vaso medio vacío de vino es también un vaso medio lleno, pero una mentira a medias, de ningún modo es una media verdad.”

“Mi pesimismo no es sino una variedad del optimismo.”

“No hay que rechazar las recompensas oficiales; lo que hay que hacer es no merecerlas.”

“No se puede ser indiferente ante la contaminación interior del hombre.”

“Si prefiero los gatos a los perros es porque no hay gatos policías.”

“Lo que el público te reprocha, cultívalo: eres tú.”

“Hay un tiempo para burlarnos y otro para que se burlen de nosotros, como hay un tiempo para beber cocktails y otros para vomitarlos.”

“A fuerza de ir al fondo de las cosas, uno acaba quedándose allí.”

“Es muy difícil hacer bella la felicidad. Una felicidad que sólo es ausencia de desdicha es cosa fea.”

“Hay tres cosas que jamás he podido comprender: el flujo y reflujo de las mareas, el mecanismo social y la lógica femenina.”

“Un egoísta es aquel sujeto que se empeña en hablarte de sí mismo cuando tú te estás muriendo de ganas de hablar de ti.”

“Victor Hugo fue un chiflado que se creía Victor Hugo.”

“Una obra de arte debe satisfacer a todas las musas. Es lo que yo llamo la prueba del nueve.”

“Un académico es un hombre que se convierte en sillón cuando muere.”

“La cordura es la locura vuelta del revés.”

“Hay que saber dónde está el límite para poder llegar.”

“El futuro no pertenece a nadie. No hay precursores, solo hay rezagados.”

“Dios no habría alcanzado nunca el gran público sin ayuda del Diablo.”

“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.”

“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”

“At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.”

“When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.”

“The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.”

“A little too much is just enough for me.”

“Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.”

“Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!”

“An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.”

“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”

“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.”

“Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.”

“one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started”

“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”

“A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.”

“True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.”

“One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.”

“There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.”

“Allow the power of the soul to grow as flagrant as the power of sex.”

“Disavow anyone who provokes or accepts the extermination of a race to which he does not belong.”

“Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.”