“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”
Sad
“After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”
DeathAll Quotes by Jean Cocteau
“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”
Poetry“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”
Poetry“Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.”
Art“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”
Good“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
Art“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.”
Death“You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”
Death“The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.”
Design“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”
Success“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.”
Best“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
Art“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
Death“Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.”
Poetry“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
Poetry“The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.”
Wisdom“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
Movies“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
Art“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
Art“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
Death