Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
JEAN COCTEAUSince the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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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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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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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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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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