A Quote by Jean Cocteau

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. — © Jean Cocteau
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance - or at least, let's say less chaste.
The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.
It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The elegance of a mathematical formula is that it explains a phenomenon beautifully, with no parts left over. In design, elegance is more readily perceived as a property of product than of process. If we had more elegant theories, we might look to design for more than elegance.
I say that when you have perceived or attained the goal, compromises, renunciations, do not exist. If you have seen the goal, compromise ceases to exist. It is then a question of a different attitude.
Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered
The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.
When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.
Elegance is not being noticed, it's about being remembered.
How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?
When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
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