More quotes by Jean Cocteau

"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
"Life is a horizontal fall."
"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."
"The poet doesn't invent. He listens."