An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
JEAN COCTEAUI have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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