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.
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. - Jean Cocteau
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
- Jean Cocteau
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. - Jean Cocteau
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape. - Jean Cocteau
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel. - Jean Cocteau
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. - Jean Cocteau
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
One must not mistake majority for truth. - Jean Cocteau
One must not mistake majority for truth.
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul. - Jean Cocteau
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
French people are Italian people in a bad mood. - Jean Cocteau
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
Living is a horizontal fall. - Jean Cocteau
Living is a horizontal fall.
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