Frases célebres de Jean Cocteau
“No se debe confundir la verdad con la opinión de la mayoría.”
Fuente: {{Versalita|Eusebio]], Sebastián Arribas. Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0, p. 229.
“Lo consiguieron porque no sabían que era imposible.”
Fuente: [Assens], Francesc. Gente corriente con éxito. Editorial Plataforma, 2016 https://www.francescassens.com/.../Gente_Corriente_con_exito-Primer_Capitulo.pdf ISBN 9788416620685
Frases de muerte de Jean Cocteau
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 418.
“Crear es un subterfugio para hacerse visible después de la muerte.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 262.
Frases de verdad de Jean Cocteau
“Que comprenda quien pueda, soy una mentira que dice siempre la verdad.”
Fuente: Citado en Boletín de programas, Números 152-174. Colaborador Radiotelevisora Nacional de Colombia. Editorial Cosmos, 1957, p. 73.
Variante: Un vaso medio vacío de vino, es también uno medio lleno; pero una mentira a medias, de ningún modo es una media verdad.
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 315.
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 578.
Jean Cocteau Frases y Citas
“El tacto consiste es saber hasta dónde se puede llegar demasiado lejos.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 131.
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero https://books.google.es/books?id=He9BAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&dq=cita+Jean+Cocteau&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo3OT41_LhAhWLyIUKHdI3CiQQ6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=%20Cocteau&f=false, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros, 2013; p. 47]. ISBN 9781629346847
“Mi pesimismo no es sino una variedad del optimismo.”
Fuente: [Sarmiento], J. M. Mil y una frases célebres. Editorial Planet House Editorials, 2016.
“No hay que rechazar las recompensas oficiales; lo que hay que hacer es no merecerlas.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 122.
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 327.
“Si prefiero los gatos a los perros es porque no hay gatos policías.”
Fuente: [Cepeda Astudillo], Franklin. De la sonrisa al asombro: literaturas marginales y otros logros pintorescos. Colección Entre la ira y la esperanza. Editorial Kaustika Ed., 2003, p. 53.
Fuente: [Gómez de la Serna], Ramón. Ensayos: retratos y biografías I: Ensayos. Efigies. Ismos (1912-1961). Editorial Círculo de Lectores, 2005. ISBN 9788422657194, p. 633.
“A fuerza de ir al fondo de las cosas, uno acaba quedándose allí.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 137.
Fuente: [Eusebio], Sebastián Arribas Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0, p. 73.
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 201.
Fuente: Citado en la revista Expansión, números 596-600. Editorial Expansión, S. de R.L. de C.V., 1992, p. 88.
“Una obra de arte debe satisfacer a todas las musas. Es lo que yo llamo la prueba del nueve.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 18.
“Un académico es un hombre que se convierte en sillón cuando muere.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 162.
“La cordura es la locura vuelta del revés.”
Fuente: [Ortega y Gasset], José. Revista de occidente, volumen 32. Volumen 14 de Biblioteca del 36. Editorial Kraus Reprint, p. 124.
Fuente: Opio: Diario de una desintoxicación.
Fuente: Cocteau, Jean. Opio: Diario de una desintoxicación. Editorial Ulises, 1931, p. 32.
“El futuro no pertenece a nadie. No hay precursores, solo hay rezagados.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p.534 .
“Dios no habría alcanzado nunca el gran público sin ayuda del Diablo.”
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero], Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros, 2013; p. 95.
Fuente: Revista Avante.
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 209.
Jean Cocteau: Frases en inglés
“The joy of youth is to disobey, but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.”
As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 271
“Living is a horizontal fall.”
Opium (1929)
Variante: Life is a horizontal fall.
Fuente: Opium: The Diary of His Cure
Diary of an Unknown (1988), On Invisibility
Contexto: Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
This personal morality may appear to be immorality itself in the eyes of those who lie to themselves, or who live a life of confusion, in such a manner that, for them, a lie becomes the truth, and our truth becomes a lie...
“Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility.”
Diary of an Unknown (1988), On Invisibility
Contexto: Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. In that case, you ask me, of what use is it? Of no use. Who will see it? No one. Which does not prevent it from being an outrage to modesty, though its exhibitionism is squandered on the blind. It is enough for poetry to express a personal ethic, which can then break away in the form of a work. It insists on living its own life. It becomes the pretext for a thousand misunderstandings that go by the name of glory...
Diary of an Unknown (1988), On Invisibility
Contexto: Beauty is always the result of an accident. Of a violent lapse between acquired habits and those yet to be acquired. It baffles and disgusts. It may even horrify. Once the new habit has been acquired, the accident ceases to be an accident. It becomes classical and loses its shock value.
Diary of an Unknown (1988), On Invisibility
Contexto: Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. In that case, you ask me, of what use is it? Of no use. Who will see it? No one. Which does not prevent it from being an outrage to modesty, though its exhibitionism is squandered on the blind. It is enough for poetry to express a personal ethic, which can then break away in the form of a work. It insists on living its own life. It becomes the pretext for a thousand misunderstandings that go by the name of glory...
"De la Ligne" in La Difficulté d’Etre [The Difficulty of Being] (1947)
Contexto: 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.
“History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.”
As quoted in The Observer (22 September 1957)
Contexto: What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.
“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”
On his election to Académie Française (1955) Variant translation: Of course I believe in luck. How else does one explain the successes of one's enemies?
“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
Depuis le jour de ma naissance, ma mort s'est mise en marche. Elle marche à ma rencontre, sans se presser.
"Postambule" in La Fin du Potomac (1939); later published in Collected Works Vol. 2 (1947)
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
As quoted in Newsweek (16 May 1955) Variant translation: Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
