Quote

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

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
Conservative
Laugh
Laughing
Remained
Since
Fashionable
Joining
Academy
Rebel
French

More quotes by Jean Cocteau

Image
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
Jean Cocteau
Image
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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
Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
Jean Cocteau
Image
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
Jean Cocteau
Image
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
Jean Cocteau
Image
A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
Jean Cocteau