French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAUThe eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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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.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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