Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
JEAN COCTEAUThe dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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