{"author":"Jean Cocteau","author_id":"Jean+Cocteau","total_quotes":48,"quotes":[{"text":"Be yourself. The world worships the original.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["writer"],"id":1492,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"},{"text":"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["good","mysterious","feelings "],"id":2328,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"},{"text":"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["cats","home"],"id":7799,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"},{"text":"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["addiction","death"],"id":14185,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"},{"text":"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["art","artist","french-artist","originality"],"id":16873,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"},{"text":"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["limit","madness","public "],"id":20929,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"},{"text":"At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["childhood"],"id":41541,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"},{"text":"I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["artists","beauty","humor","philosophy","society","women"],"id":48234,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"},{"text":"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["creation","creativity"],"id":55870,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"},{"text":"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["roses","true","scent "],"id":58969,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}