Quotes by Cocteau, Jean

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for. >>

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious >>

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

Quotations about Commonplace

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. >>

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, >>

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question >>

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.

Cocteau, Jean