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 COCTEAUA true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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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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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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