Famous Quotes / Jean Cocteau
60 Quotations by Jean Cocteau
- 1. A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the g ...
- 2. A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
- 3. A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
- 4. After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- 5. All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an ...
- 6. An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
- 7. An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
- 8. Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
- 9. Art is science made clear.
- 10. Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak ...
- 11. Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.
- 12. Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opi ...
- 13. He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude e ...
- 14. I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- 15. I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
- 16. I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without reali ...
- 17. I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
- 18. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul
- 19. I'm not willing to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and liberty.
- 20. If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...