Jean Cocteau Quotes & Quotations

Jean Cocteau Quotes

» Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

» You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

» 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.

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

» The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

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

» 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.

» There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

» The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

» What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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