Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.Wikipedia

Quotes by Jean Cocteau

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Jean Cocteau

Life is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Jean Cocteau

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Jean Cocteau

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Jean Cocteau

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Jean Cocteau