Quotes by : Jean Cocteau

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree....

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium....

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable....

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

plantitIt will sproutBut forget about the rustic festivitiesFor the explosive word falls harmlessly eternal....