We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
JEAN COCTEAUAfter the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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