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 COCTEAUCultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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