Jean Cocteau Quotes About Originality

Quotes about: Originality

• An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

  Jean Cocteau

  Artist, Order, Original Art

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

• When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

  Jean Cocteau

  Time, Funny Basketball, Originality

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

• 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

  Jobs, Light, Done

  "A Call to Order". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.

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