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.
JEAN COCTEAUFrench people are Italian people in a bad mood.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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