An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
JEAN COCTEAUOne of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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