Jean Cocteau Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

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  I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dog, Home, Cat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model... With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.

  Jean Cocteau

  Running, Writing, Eye

  "The Difficulty of Being". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1947.

• The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Jobs, Giving

• There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

  Jean Cocteau

  Character, Soul, Woods

  The New York Times, February 15, 1987.

• The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

  Jean Cocteau

  Laughing, Healthy, Soul

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