Quote

The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.

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
Says
Beauty
Paul
Understand
Version
Film
Versions
Must
Beast
Love
Dog
Car
Poet

More quotes by Jean Cocteau

Image
Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
Image
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
Jean Cocteau
Image
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
Jean Cocteau
Image
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
Jean Cocteau
Image
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jean Cocteau
Image
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
Jean Cocteau
Image
The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.
Jean Cocteau
Image
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
Jean Cocteau
Image
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Cocteau
Image
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
Jean Cocteau