328 Quotes by Jean Cocteau

When I think of all the books I have yet to read, I am sure that I am still happy.

Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.

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

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

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

Childhood knows what it wants – to leave childhood behind.

The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.

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