The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
Jean CocteauWhen a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Jean CocteauPoetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
Jean CocteauI want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.
Jean Cocteau