Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
JEAN COCTEAUOne must not mistake majority for truth.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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