“After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”
Death
“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Jean Cocteau
“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”
Poetry“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”
Sad“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”
Poetry“Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.”
Poetry“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
Movies“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
Death“Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.”
Art“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
Art“I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
Home“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 instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.”
Society“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“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
Death“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”
Success“The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.”
Wisdom“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”
Truth“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?”
Success“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
Art“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”
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