328 Quotes by Jean Cocteau

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.