Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry is a religion with no hope.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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One 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.
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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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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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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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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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