More quotes by Jean Cocteau

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
"Mirrors should think longer before they reflect."
"The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
"The poet doesn't invent. He listens."
"Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!"