Quote #29
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
More from Jean Cocteau
- Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.
- There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
- I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it …
- The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails…
- That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.
- The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
- Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy i…
- When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.