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 More Quotes by Jean Cocteau More Quotes From Jean Cocteau What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jean Cocteau uniforms heart depression 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 tiny color use A little too much is just enough for me. Jean Cocteau too-much enough littles One sits down first; one thinks afterwards. Jean Cocteau time firsts thinking A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility. Jean Cocteau propriety lasts responsibility Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau glasses mirrors watches 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 axes stars blue 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 aquariums clouds water Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept. Jean Cocteau youth certain accepting Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime. Jean Cocteau lifetime stones men The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far. Jean Cocteau genius knowing art 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 inspiration play profound Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life. Jean Cocteau visibility elegance achieve Find first, seek later. Jean Cocteau firsts The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness. Jean Cocteau Art is science made clear. Jean Cocteau Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. Jean Cocteau 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 bizzare which seems inherent in them. Jean Cocteau The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. Jean Cocteau I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? Jean Cocteau you chance luck success believe
