I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
JEAN COCTEAUI’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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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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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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