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
The essential in daring is to know how far one can go too far
Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go to far.
Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far
A good upbringing consists in hiding how much you think of yourself, and how little you think of others.
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Vistor Hugo.
When a work of art appears to be in advance of its period, it is really the period that has lagged behind the work of art
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.