The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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