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Jean Cocteau Quotes | Quotes said by Jean Cocteau

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #1

    „Wer mein Haus betreten will, der trete ein. Wem es hier gefällt, der bleibe. Ich weigere mich, etwas zu planen. Und wenn man mich fragt, was ich aus meinem Haus mitnehmen würde, wenn es brennt, antworte ich: das Feuer.


  • Jean Cocteau Quote #2

    A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: Paul's dying; Paul's going to die' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #3

    A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #4

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

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #5

    All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #6

    All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #7

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

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #8

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

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #9

    Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #10

    Art is science made clear.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #11

    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 Quote #12

    At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #13

    Be yourself. The world worships the original.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #14

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

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #15

    Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #16

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

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #17

    I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #18

    I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #19

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

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #20

    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 Quote #21

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

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #22

    I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #23

    J'aime les chats parce que j'aime ma maison. Et qu'ils en deviennent peu à peu l'âme visible.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #24

    Jeannot la bêtise des amoureux est immense, végétale, animale, astrale. Que faire? Comment te faire comprendre que je n'existe plus en dehors de toi.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #25

    Les expériences dangereuses, le monde les accepte dans le domaine de l’art parce qu’il ne prend pas l’art au sérieux, mais il les condamne dans la vie.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #26

    Life is a horizontal fall.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #27

    Ma véritable vie est née
    Après que j’ai connu Jeannot
    Maintenant nous mélangeons nos
    Chaussures dans la cheminée

    ?

    C’est pour toi que je fais des livres
    Pour toi des pièces et des vers
    Je les voudrais pareils au givre
    Que la vitre montre à l’envers

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    Cette nuit Noël va descendre
    Pour nous réchauffer un peu
    Car il – comme la salamandre
    Pose ses pieds sur le feu.


    (Poèmes de Noël de Jean Cocteau pour Jean Marais)

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #28

    Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #29

    One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.

  • Jean Cocteau Quote #30

    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.

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