We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
JEAN COCTEAUDo as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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