The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
JEAN COCTEAUAnything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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