Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
JEAN COCTEAUThe speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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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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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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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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