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Jean Cocteau Quotes

French - Director | July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963

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.

Light Job Youth Rest Literature You

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Mystery Own Above Infinity Gods

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Thought Movies Fountain Film

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

Love Soul Wood To Love Who Souls

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

You Go Knowing How Far Without Far

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Handwriting Tie Up Again Differently

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Poetry Roses True Scent Poet Bother

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Paris Nobody Actor Content Spectator

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Beautiful Time Art Ugly Fashion

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Live Death I Am Me Trying Teach

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Man Artist Living Must

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Life Simplicity Ideas Design Bear

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