Jean Cocteau Inspirational Quotes (126)

The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

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.

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

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.