Jean Cocteau Quotes
Art is science made clear.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one`s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don`t like?
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
The poet doesn`t invent. He listens.
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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.
