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.
JEAN COCTEAUFight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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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.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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