Quote

Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

Jean Cocteau

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
Actor
Composer
Designer
Film Director
Illustrator
Librettist
Novelist
Painter
Photographer
Playwright
Poet
Postage Stamp Designer
Prosaist
Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
Zhan Kokto
Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau
Eugene Jean Maurice Cocteau
Jean Cocteau
Earth
Aquariums
Music
Scent
Live
Waves
Need
Wave
Enough
Clouds
Needs
Everyday
Sprites
Like
Water
Scents
House
Nocturnal

More quotes by Jean Cocteau

Image
Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.
Jean Cocteau
Image
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
Image
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
Jean Cocteau
Image
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
Jean Cocteau
Image
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
Jean Cocteau
Image
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
Jean Cocteau
Image
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
Jean Cocteau
Image
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
Image
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
Jean Cocteau