Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is science in the flesh.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
-
-
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
JEAN COCTEAU -
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
JEAN COCTEAU -
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
JEAN COCTEAU -
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
JEAN COCTEAU -
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
JEAN COCTEAU -
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAU -
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
JEAN COCTEAU -
One must not mistake majority for truth.
JEAN COCTEAU -
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
JEAN COCTEAU -
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
JEAN COCTEAU -
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Art is science in the flesh.
JEAN COCTEAU -
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
JEAN COCTEAU