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
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.
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
If it has to choose who will be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas
The essential in daring is to know how far one can go too far