328 Quotes by Jean Cocteau

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.