We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
JEAN COCTEAUHere I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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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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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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