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

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

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau

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Art
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Jean Cocteau
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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Art
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

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Death
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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. – Maurice Blanchot

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Style

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

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Style

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. – Samuel Butler

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Style

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry Adams

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Style

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Habit is a great deadener. – Samuel Beckett

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Ive got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks its what children bring into school with them. – Johann Lamont

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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. – Johann Arndt

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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence – I find that offensive. I think thats potentially damaging to society. – Dean Koontz

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