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
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie
We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.