The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is science in the flesh.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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