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

Music, Good, Feelings

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

Pet, Love, Home

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

Art, Time, Beautiful

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau

Death, Since, Walk

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

Him, Give, Alcohol

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

Art, Cannot, Speak

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau

Movies, Thought, Film

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau

Work, Art, Value

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Jean Cocteau

Death, Live, Trying

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

Wisdom, Public, Madness

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Cocteau

Art, Film, Paper

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau

Success, Else, Luck

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau

Poetry, Poet, Invent

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau

Poetry, True, Nor

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau

Simple, Saying, Style

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau

Far, Knowing, Tact

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau

Marriage, Art, Conscious

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

Friendship, God, Best

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
Jean Cocteau

Nose, Musical, Pieces

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Jean Cocteau

Art, Priesthood, Pastime

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

Artist, Order, Original

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

Great, Sad, Tell

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau

Live, Nothing, Regret

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
Jean Cocteau

Become, Body, Addicted

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Jean Cocteau

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: July 5, 1889

Died: October 11, 1963

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