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Jean Cocteau Quotes

Jean Cocteau quotes

French Director, Writer, Poet July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963

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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
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 journey which memory forgets. One must, when this is impossible, write or draw without responding to the romantic solicitations of pain, without enjoying suffering like music, tieing a pen to one's foot if need be, helping the doctors who can learn nothing from laziness. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. Jean Cocteau
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 dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication:..."
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of..."
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of..."
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like? Jean Cocteau
It is in this way that a war is disastrous. If it does not kill, it transmits to some an energy alien to their own resources; to others it permits what the law forbids and accustoms them to short cuts. It artificially glorifies ingenuity, pity, daring. A whole younger generation believes itself to be sublime and collapses when it has to draw on itself for patriotism and fate. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of..."
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it..."
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. Jean Cocteau
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you..."
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "Silence moves faster when it's going backward."
Silence moves faster when it's going backward. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the..."
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau

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