Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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