Jean Cocteau Quotes - Page 9

• Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mean, Men, Discipline

  "Diario de un desconocido". Libro de Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle.

  Jean Cocteau

  Crowds, Moments

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• Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Laughing, Rebel, Joining

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• Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

  Jean Cocteau

  Guarantees, Dogma, Martyr

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• The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.

  Jean Cocteau

  Song, Military, Skins

  "A Thing or Two about Music". Book by Nicolas Slonimsky, 1948.

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• Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Moving, Looks

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). "El mundo de Cocteau: antología de escritos", Owen

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• In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this journey which memory forgets. One must, when this is impossible, write or draw without responding to the romantic solicitations of pain, without enjoying suffering like music, tieing a pen to one's foot if need be, helping the doctors who can learn nothing from laziness.

  Jean Cocteau

  Pain, Memories, Believe

  Jean Cocteau (1990). "Opio: El diario ilustrado de su curación", Peter Owen Publishers

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• I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.

  Jean Cocteau

  Loyalty, Children, Light

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• The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

  Jean Cocteau

  Friendship, Cutting, Preservation

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• Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

  Jean Cocteau

  Photography, Silence, Cry

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• 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

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• A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

  Jean Cocteau

  Responsibility, Lasts, Propriety

  Jean Cocteau (1967). “The Infernal Machine: And Other Plays”, p.154, New Directions Publishing

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• El oído desaprueba pero tolera ciertas piezas musicales; trasládelas al dominio de nuestra nariz y nos veremos obligados a huir.

  Jean Cocteau

  Musical, Noses, Pieces

  "An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 130, 1981.

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• Basta ya de nubes, olas, acuarios, chorros de agua y aromas nocturnos; lo que necesitamos es música de la tierra, música cotidiana... música en la que se pueda vivir como en una casa.

  Jean Cocteau

  Clouds, Aquariums, Water

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• One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Artist, Men

  "El gallo y el arlequín: Notas relativas a la música". Libro de Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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