Jean Cocteau's Quotes

Jean Cocteau's Quotes 56

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we...

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent...

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious...

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its...

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me...

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In...

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil...

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss...

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time....

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be...

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my...

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many...

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The extreme limit of wisdom that's what the public calls madness.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

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