328 Quotes by Jean Cocteau

A picture neither saddening nor gladdening I fear; neither beautiful nor ugly.

Ma véritable vie est néeAprès que j’ai connu JeannotMaintenant nous mélangeons nosChaussures dans la cheminée✫C’est pour toi que je fais des livresPour toi des pièces et des versJe les voudrais pareils au givreQue la vitre montre à l’envers✫Cette nuit Noël va descendrePour nous réchauffer un peuCar il – comme la salamandrePose ses pieds sur le feu.(Poèmes de Noël de Jean Cocteau pour Jean Marais)

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Les expériences dangereuses, le monde les accepte dans le domaine de l’art parce qu’il ne prend pas l’art au sérieux, mais il les condamne dans la vie.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.

Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than failure, and a kind of failure worth all the success in the world. Neither did I know that the distant friendship of Rainer Maria Rilke would one day console me for having seen his lamp burn without knowing that it was signalling me to go and singe my wings against its flame.

Die meisten Menschen leben in den Ruinen ihrer Gewohnheiten.