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
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.
The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.
It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.