All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
JEAN COCTEAUI have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
-
-
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
JEAN COCTEAU -
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
JEAN COCTEAU -
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Art is science in the flesh.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
JEAN COCTEAU -
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
JEAN COCTEAU -
The joy of the young is to disobey.
JEAN COCTEAU -
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 -
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
JEAN COCTEAU -
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
JEAN COCTEAU