Top 10 quotes from Jean Cocteau, French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter born on July 5, 1889:
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous,
but of being believed.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the
unconscious.
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a
nursery gardener scent his roses.
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your
work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then
cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth
keeping.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
I am a lie that always speaks the truth.
An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a
plant can discuss horticulture.
And one more:
Poetry is indispensable—if I only knew what for.
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