It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
JEAN COCTEAUThe ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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