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Jean Cocteau Quotes
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
After the writers death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Art is science made clear. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
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 for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
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 while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
I am a lie who always speaks the truth. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? - Jean Cocteau Quotes
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
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 friendship, took it from me, sent me another. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Life is a horizontal fall. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is whats known as infinity. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
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