Best Jean Cocteau Quotes
- The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. Admired
- True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. Consists
- After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Death
- Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. Children
- In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. Actor
- The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. Dictionary
- You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. Bees
- I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a… Best
- Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity… Clean
- If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. Always Save
- The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. Friends
- The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed. Admiration
- The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. Art
- One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers,… Agree
- Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train… Concern
- The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of… Actual
- Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. Artist
- If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. Becomes
- Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. Differently
- Silence moves faster when it's going backward. Backward
- There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. Character
- What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. Criticism
- The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If… All
- Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep… Act
- The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Acceptance
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