Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. Jean Cocteau Read Quote
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. Jean Cocteau Read Quote
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Read Quote
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. Jean Cocteau Read Quote
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. Jean Cocteau Read Quote
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. Jean Cocteau Read Quote
