328 Quotes by Jean Cocteau

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

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Find first, seek later.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

I have never felt any connection with my family. There is—I must say simply—something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.