After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
JEAN COCTEAUFilm will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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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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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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