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.
JEAN COCTEAUI know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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