"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you……" — Jean Cocteau
"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."
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158 Quotes by Jean Cocteau
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He…
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies.…
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which…
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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More Audacity Quotes
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The first quality that is needed is audacity.
— Winston Churchill
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will,…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.
— Georges Danton
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What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin,…
— Dick Gregory
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Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.
— Winston Churchill
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Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
— Georges Danton
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In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been…
— Sandra Bernhard
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