Jean Cocteau Quotations

We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.

My only politics have been friendship.

The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.