Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.” — 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
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. — 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
“I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — 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
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
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — 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
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. — 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
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Art according to art! Love according to love! This is taking the salt away from Heaven. Do you think Our Savior tries… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — 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 Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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 Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
