Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
JEAN COCTEAUThe speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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