Quotes by : Jean Cocteau

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

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

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable....

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

plantitIt will sproutBut forget about the rustic festivitiesFor the explosive word falls harmlessly eternal....

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and....