More From Jean Cocteau
- "Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
- "I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
- "Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death."
More In Art
- "Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."― Joseph Conrad
- "Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor."― Ernest Hemingway
- "The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal."― Elia Kazan