A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
JEAN COCTEAUI know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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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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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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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 seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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