Poetry is a religion with no hope.
JEAN COCTEAUI have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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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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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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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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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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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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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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