Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
JEAN COCTEAUThe eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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