Jean Cocteau Quotes About Art
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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Art is science made flesh.
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The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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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.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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