Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
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How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
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I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Art is science made flesh.
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