Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau Quotes
Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
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.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
