Best Jean Cocteau Words
- The joy of the young is to disobey Disobey
- The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far. Art
- Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of… Acts
- I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered… Abstract
- My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in… Brushes
- There are poets and there are grownups. Grownups
- I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. Indispensable
- Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective… Affective
- The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails. Art
- The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living. Closed
- Lack of manners is the sign of a hero. Hero
- In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this… Behind
- Living is a horizontal fall. Fall
- Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make… Appear
- The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence,… Blowing
- I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Inspirational
- It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. Deeply
- All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms All
- Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo Funny
- What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He… Always Show
- The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world. Drug
- A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his… All
- Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. Appearance
- If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. Becoming
- one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started Always Talk
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