Jean Cocteau Quotes & Sayings

57 most famous Jean Cocteau quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a French director who passed away on 11 October, 1963.

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“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”

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

“One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.”

“There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.”

“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”

“Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”

“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”

“True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.”

“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”

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

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