Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Quote by Jean Cocteau

Topics: Jean Cocteau Quotes

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say...

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say...

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do...

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do...

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death....

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death....

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects...

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects...

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save...

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save...

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't...

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death...

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death...

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which...

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which...

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his...

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his...

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not...

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not...

The international community should not ignore such continued manifestations of Pakistani irresponsibility, loose talk and...

The international community should not ignore such continued manifestations of Pakistani irresponsibility, loose talk and...

You know that what the Chadian government is doing is blackmail. That is exactly why...

You know that what the Chadian government is doing is blackmail. That is exactly why...