Jean Cocteau's Quote - Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. – Jean Cocteau

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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. - Jean Cocteau

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. – Jean Cocteau

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Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. – Jean Cocteau

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A film is a petrified fountain of thought. – Jean Cocteau

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The extreme limit of wisdom, thats what the public calls madness. – Jean Cocteau

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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire

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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. – Martin Amis

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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