Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
JEAN COCTEAUSilence moves faster when it’s going backward.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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