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.
JEAN COCTEAUBeauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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