The poet Paul รluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.
Jean CocteauPoetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
Jean CocteauA man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
Jean CocteauIn two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this journey which memory forgets. One must, when this is impossible, write or draw without responding to the romantic solicitations of pain, without enjoying suffering like music, tieing a pen to one's foot if need be, helping the doctors who can learn nothing from laziness.
Jean Cocteau