When 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.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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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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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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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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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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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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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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