Jean Cocteau Pillows

Description: Jean Cocteau exhibition lithograph for Galerie Laurent Teillet, Paris 1988, with the participation of Edouard Dermit. Cocteau was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. An enormously influential French artist and writer known as one of the major figures of Dada and Surrealism. He established himself as a leading creative force in Paris. He maintained a long standing friendship with artist Pablo Picasso.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like – then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: LIFE IS A HORIZONTAL FALL

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: Art is science made clear

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: Vivre est une chute horizontale.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: L'art c'est la science faite clair.

Description: Testament of Orpheus (Le testament d'Orphée) is a 1960 black-and-white film with a few seconds of color film spliced into it. Directed by and starring Jean Cocteau, who plays himself as an 18th-century poet, the film includes cameo appearances by Pablo Picasso, Jean Marais, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Pierre Leaud, and Yul Brynner. It is considered the final part of The Orphic Trilogy, following The Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orphée (1950).

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: Art is science made clear (dark text)

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk.It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Description: Jean Cocteau quote: I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Description: Original Artwork by Joseph Shahadi of a still from Cocteau's film The Blood of a Poet.

Description: Jean Genet (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; 19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens. In 1949, when Genet was threatened with a life sentence after ten convictions, Cocteau and other prominent figures, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Picasso, successfully petitioned the French President to have the sentence set aside.

Description: Jean Genet (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; 19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens. In 1949, when Genet was threatened with a life sentence after ten convictions, Cocteau and other prominent figures, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Picasso, successfully petitioned the French President to have the sentence set aside.

Description: Cover page from the book by Cocteau

Description: all the greatest stories had similar beginnings. Once...

Description: Cocteau leaves his signature on the fairy tale in a resplendent take on the classic Beauty and the Beast.

Description: Gli Italiani sono dei Francesi di buon umore - The Italians are French in a good mood: a quote by Jean Cocteau, a representative of surrealism and dadaism in France. If you agree with his words, why not wear them on a t-shirt?

Description: Les Italiens sont des Français de bonne humeur - The Italians are French in a good mood: a quote by Jean Cocteau, a representative of surrealism and dadaism in France. If you agree with his words, why not wear them on a t-shirt?