One must not mistake majority for truth.
JEAN COCTEAUBeauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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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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