Jean Cocteau

Paris Belongs to Us, dir. Jacques Rivette, 1961 ''Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed...

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), Jean Hugo and Pierre Colle playing chess

Desire Caught by the Tail is a farcical play written by the painter Pablo Picasso. In the winter of 1941,...

Jean Cocteau, 1929 Suppose your house were on fire and you could remove only one thing. What would you take?...

Jean Cocteau, Dessins, 1923 . Dessins contains more than 100 line cuts of Cocteau’s early drawings, dedicated to Picasso with the apology:...

Jean Cocteau, Les enfants terribles (The Holy Terrors), 1929 “At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be...

Pierre Jahan: Jean Cocteau, 1943 Pierre Jahan: Colette, Palais Royal, Paris, 1941 Robert Cohen: Jean...

Jean Cocteau with Gun, 1926 "Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his...

James Joyce playing the guitar in Trieste, 1915 Julio Cortazar on trumpet Jack Kerouac and his harmonica, 1966 Robert Louis Stevenson (>> ο...

Jean Cocteau: Self-Portrait, 1924 in a letter to Paul Valéry Jean Cocteau, Self-Portrait, 1909 Jean Cocteau, Self Portrait for The...