Category - Jean Cocteau

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Jean Cocteau

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

– Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.

– Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

– Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

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

Jean Cocteau

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

– Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

– Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

– Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

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.

– Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

– Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

– Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

– Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

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

– Jean Cocteau

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