Cocteau

Famous quotes containing the word cocteau:

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

“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)

“Life is a horizontal fall.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)