Jean Cocteau Quotes about Reality

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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau

Art, Lying, Reality

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Jean Cocteau

Reality, Illusion, Mythology

When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.

Jean Cocteau

Dream, Animal, Reality