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
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie
Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.
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.
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Vistor Hugo.
Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go to far.
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
That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.
My only politics have been friendship.
The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.