Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
Jean Cocteau
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Tell
Discomfort
Money
Reward
Cannot
Bought
Part
Plays
Nothing
Luxury
Play
Rewards
Comfort
Fear
Advocate
More quotes by Jean Cocteau
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
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
Jean Cocteau
Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Jean Cocteau
Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
Jean Cocteau
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Jean Cocteau
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
The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
Jean Cocteau
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
Jean Cocteau
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
Jean Cocteau
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
Jean Cocteau
The cinema is death at work.
Jean Cocteau
And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
Jean Cocteau
The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
Jean Cocteau
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
Jean Cocteau
What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
Jean Cocteau
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
Jean Cocteau
