--- title: "1 True Image Quotes By Jean Genet" description: "1 True Image quotes by Jean Genet. Plus more from Jean Genet and more True Image sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ad/jean-genet-3865_born_it-s-a-true-image-born-of-a-false-specta_797627.jpg" --- > [It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/it-s-a-true-image-born-of-a-false-spectacle/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ad/jean-genet-3865_born_it-s-a-true-image-born-of-a-false-specta_797627.jpg) ## More by Jean Genet > [I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/i-m-homosexual-how-and-why-are-idle-questions-it-s-a-little-like/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/worse-than-not-realizing-the-dreams-of-your-youth-would-be-to-have/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/the-most-reasonable-man-always-manages-when-he-pulls-the-trigger-to/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/i-could-not-take-lightly-the-idea-that-people-made-love-without-me/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/repudiating-the-virtues-of-your-world-criminals-hopelessly-agree-to/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/perhaps-all-music-even-the-newest-is-not-so-much-something-discovered/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/love-makes-use-of-the-worst-traps-the-least-noble-the-rarest-it/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [“They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was not torn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/they-made-comments-about-the-women-s-legs-but-as-they-were-not-witty/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [“Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat of which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/thereafter-he-ennobled-shame-he-bore-it-in-my-presence-like-a-burden/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [I decided to be what crime made of me,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/i-decided-to-be-what-crime-made-of-me/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/prison-dungeons-blessed-places-where-evil-is-impossible-because-they/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/a-great-wind-swept-over-the-ghetto-carrying-away-shame-invisibility/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/in-reviewing-my-life-in-tracing-its-course-i-fill-my-cell-with-the/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [“The rims of his eyelids were burning. A blow received straightens a man up and makes the body move forward, to return that blow,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/the-rims-of-his-eyelids-were-burning-a-blow-received-straightens-a/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) > [“My love is always sad.”' “That's right. As soon as I kiss you, you get sad. I've noticed it.” “Does it bother you?” “No,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/my-love-is-always-sad-that-s-right-as-soon-as-i-kiss-you-you-get-sad/) [Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-image/jean-genet/#itemlist", "name": "1 True Image Quotes By Jean Genet", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jean Genet" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/it-s-a-true-image-born-of-a-false-spectacle/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ad/jean-genet-3865_born_it-s-a-true-image-born-of-a-false-specta_797627.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ad/jean-genet-3865_born_it-s-a-true-image-born-of-a-false-specta_797627.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ad/jean-genet-3865_born_it-s-a-true-image-born-of-a-false-specta_797627.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.” — Jean Genet", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-image/jean-genet/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-image/jean-genet/", "name": "True Image Quotes by Jean Genet", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-image/jean-genet/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ad/jean-genet-3865_born_it-s-a-true-image-born-of-a-false-specta_797627.jpg" }, "description": "1 True Image quotes by Jean Genet. 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