Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
JEAN COCTEAUWhen I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Poetry 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.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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