Jean Cocteau Quotes

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

Without freedom there is no art.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music or a piece of art, the restraint that holds the rest of - the rest of the world back off and vanishes in the rest of your life.