Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Cocteau Quotes
1889–1963 France
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, painter, and filmmaker.
- France
- Academics
- Film directors
- Novelists
- Painters
Also known as: Cocteau, Jean
87 quotes
The joy of youth is to disobey, but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007)
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007)
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes (2002)
Poetry is indispensable — if I only knew what for.
The Necessity of Art (1959)
Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Dessins (1924)
Don’t for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music (1981)
Allow the power of the soul to grow as flagrant as the power of sex.
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier’s wrist.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
On his election to Académie Française (1955)
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas .
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
The extreme limit of wisdom — that’s what the public calls madness.
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Cocteau (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.