Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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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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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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