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, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
Quotes by Jean Cocteau
An artist cannot speak about his art more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.

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