Best Jean Cocteau Quotations
- And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret… Accept
- Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them. Assessment
- Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. Artist
- Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Art
- Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself. Assistant
- French people are Italian people in a bad mood. Bad
- One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. Art
- Without resistance you can do nothing Funny
- Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels. Angel
- He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world. Activeness
- Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. Back Images
- Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for. Art
- Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Appreciation
- It was the East that should have sent us missionaries. East
- It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. Ceases
- Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere. Bust
- The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your… Across
- My only politics have been friendship. Been
- Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Art
- Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths. Baths
- A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility. Always Finds
- I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition. Exhibit
- What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes… Along
- Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a… Aquariums
- Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept. Accept
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