Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
JEAN COCTEAUNot only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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