“Beauty Cannot Be Recognized with a Cursory Glance” – Jean Cocteau

„Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.“

Jean CocteauJean Cocteau on beauty: True beauty cannot be recognized at a glance but reveals itself through attentive observation.
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Jean Cocteau was a French writer, film director, and painter.

Jean Cocteau emphasizes that true beauty becomes visible only through attentive and deeper observation.


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Inspirational Jean Cocteau quote about recognizing beauty

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was born in 1889 in Maisons-Laffitte near Paris and died in 1963 in Milly-la-Forêt. He published his first poems at the age of 17, and his first poetry collections appeared in 1909. In addition to literature, he worked in film, painting, and ballet.

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"Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God." Umberto Eco
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