Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
JEAN COCTEAUThe prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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 dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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