Jean Cocteau Quotes

Art is science made clear.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.

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.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Poetry is indispensable—if I only knew what for.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.