Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
JEAN COCTEAUWhen 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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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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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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