More quotes by 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."
"The poet doesn't invent. He listens."
"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."
"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."
"The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."