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~ Jean Cocteau Quotes ~
« on: December 01, 2014, 04:46:53 PM »
Jean Cocteau Quotes


A French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker.
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet.

Here are some famous quotes by  Jean Cocteau. 




The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2014, 04:47:23 PM »
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2014, 04:47:50 PM »
One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.
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« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2014, 04:48:17 PM »
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2014, 04:48:47 PM »
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2014, 04:49:13 PM »
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2014, 04:49:40 PM »
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little they become its visible soul.
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« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2014, 04:50:08 PM »
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Re: ~ Jean Cocteau Quotes ~
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2014, 04:50:35 PM »
Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?
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« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2014, 04:51:03 PM »
The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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Re: ~ Jean Cocteau Quotes ~
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2014, 04:51:29 PM »
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Re: ~ Jean Cocteau Quotes ~
« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2014, 04:51:56 PM »
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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« Reply #12 on: December 01, 2014, 04:52:21 PM »
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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