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Good music resembles somethin...

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Art produces ugly things whic...

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I want the kind of readers wh...

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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

One sits down first; one thin...

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Artists can no more speak abo...

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Keep braiding one's wavelengt...

Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Nothing is more intriguing th...

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Expect neither reward nor bea...

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Poetry is a religion without ...

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

My little Renoirs. Matisse de...

My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

In exiling myself I am not ex...

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

A little too much is just eno...

A little too much is just enough for me.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The poet, by composing poems,...

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The poet is at the disposal o...

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

It is difficult to live witho...

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Beauty makes one lose one's h...

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Anything of any importance ca...

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

What is style? For many peopl...

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Be a mere assistant to your u...

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Be a constant outrage to mode...

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

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