The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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