Cocteau

Famous quotes containing the word cocteau:

“Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

“An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

“The extreme limit of wisdom—that’s what the public calls madness.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)