A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
JEAN COCTEAUFight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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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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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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