I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
JEAN COCTEAUFrench people are Italian people in a bad mood.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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