Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
JEAN COCTEAUI have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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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 artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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