Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
JEAN COCTEAUAn artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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