Famous Quotes / Jean Cocteau
60 Quotations by Jean Cocteau
- 41. The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by its source.
- 42. The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness.
- 43. The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
- 44. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins ...
- 45. The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
- 46. The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
- 47. The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
- 48. The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- 49. The trouble about the Academie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we real ...
- 50. The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- 51. There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
- 52. There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return ...
- 53. True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us f ...
- 54. Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Vistor Hugo.
- 55. We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
- 56. Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his ...
- 57. What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the art ...
- 58. What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
- 59. When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
- 60. You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a gla ...