Quote #37
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
More from Jean Cocteau
- One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
- All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
- Art is science made clear.
- The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
- In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
- When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
- Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.