List of Jean Cocteau Quotes

It Seems To Me That Invisibility Is The Required Provision Of Elegance. Elegance Ceases To Exist When It Is Noticed.

Celebrity: I Picture Myself As A Marble Bust With Legs To Run Everywhere.

Look Out! Be On Your Guard, Because Alone Of All The Arts, Music Moves All Around You.

Lack Of Manners Is The Sign Of A Hero.

Poetry Is An Ethic. By Ethic I Mean A Secret Code Of Behavior, A Discipline Constructed And Conducted According To The Capabilities Of A Man Who Rejects The Falsifications Of The Categorical Imperative.

Stupidity Is Always Astounding, No Matter How Often One Encounters It.

I Succeeded In Bewitching A Fair Number And In Being Intoxicated With My Mistakes.

Catastrophe, Riots, Factories Blowing Up, Armies In Flight, Flood - The Ear Can Detect A Whole Apocalypse In The Starry Night Of The Human Body.

One Should Always Talk Well About Oneself! The Word Spreads Around And In The End, Noone Remembers Where It Started

One Must Be A Living Man And A Posthumous Artist.

Statues To Great Men Are Made Of The Stones Thrown At Them In Their Lifetime.

In Two Weeks, Despite These Notes, I Shall No Longer Believe In What I Am Experiencing Now. One Must Leave Behind A Trace Of This Journey Which Memory Forgets. One Must, When This Is Impossible, Write Or Draw Without Responding To The Romantic Solicitations Of Pain, Without Enjoying Suffering Like Music, Tieing A Pen To One's Foot If Need Be, Helping The Doctors Who Can Learn Nothing From Laziness.