Clergyman's

“You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”
– Jean Cocteau

“After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”
– Jean Cocteau

“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
– Jean Cocteau

“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
– Jean Cocteau

“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
– Jean Cocteau

“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 from me, sent me another.”
– Jean Cocteau

“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
– Jean Cocteau

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
– Jean Cocteau

“Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.”
– Jean Cocteau

“Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”
– Jean Cocteau

“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
– Jean Cocteau

“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
– Jean Cocteau

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
– Jean Cocteau