Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteauwas a French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles, and the films Blood of a Poet, Les Parents Terribles, Beauty and the Beastand Orpheus. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, Albert Gleizes, Igor Stravinsky, Marie Laurencin, María Félix, Édith Piaf, Panama Al Brown, Colette, Jean Genet,...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 July 1889
CityMaisons-Laffitte, France
CountryFrance
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Living is a horizontal fall.
Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.
The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
The joy of the young is to disobey
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.