Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
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