May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
JEAN COCTEAUMay the devil himself splatter you with dung.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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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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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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