Best Jean Cocteau Sayings
- The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. Any
- Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself. Blame
- Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness. Animal
- Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. Anywhere
- If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside… Addict
- The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing. Counts
- Art is science made flesh. Art
- It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one… Difficult
- It is not inspiration; it is expiration. Expiration
- When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Ahead
- Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence. Alas
- The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation. Await
- History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. Becomes
- Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Absurdities
- Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. All
- One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. Accused
- Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance. Beauty
- The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the… Composing
- The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul. Ability
- I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter. Black
- Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and… Affair
- There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Funny
- Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation Beauty
- I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow. Feel
- The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. Arithmetic
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