Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
JEAN COCTEAUNot only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
JEAN COCTEAUThe joy of the young is to disobey.
JEAN COCTEAUYou’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
JEAN COCTEAUHere I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
JEAN COCTEAUStyle is a simple way of saying complicated things.
JEAN COCTEAULiving is a horizontal fall.
JEAN COCTEAUFrench people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAUI only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry 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.
JEAN COCTEAUIf it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
JEAN COCTEAUA true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is not a pastime but a priesthood.
JEAN COCTEAUMan seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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.
JEAN COCTEAU