328 Quotes by Jean Cocteau

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

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

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

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

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