Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau
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 Cocteau
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. – Jean Cocteau
Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. – Jean Cocteau
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I dont mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. – Charles de Lint