A Quote by Jean Cocteau

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

Jean Cocteau

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Art Art Form Form Instinctively Lying Only Public Reality Sanctions

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Jean Cocteau
French - Novelist
July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963

If somebody prefers to work by means of sanctions, he is welcome to do so. But sanctions are a temporary measure. Firstly, they contradict the international law. Secondly, tell me where this policy of sanctions proved to be effective. The answer is nowhere.

Vladimir Putin

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

Oscar Wilde

Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

Jim Drain

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

Paul Virilio

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

Andre Gide

Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.

Teller

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

Mason Cooley

Sanctions kept us on our toes, it made us realize that we were drifting into a situation of growing isolation so I wouldn't go as far as to say sanctions didn't play a role but if I were to put on a scale, the issues of conscience played a much greater role than the sanctions. We could have withstood sanctions for many more years. We became experts in circumventing sanctions... So sanctions played a role but it wasn't the major role.

Frederik Willem de Klerk

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

Christian Bauman

People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.

Mohamed ElBaradei

People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.

Mohamed ElBaradei

At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.

Samantha Power

The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international law.

Vladimir Putin

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.