Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAUEverything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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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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