Know that your work speaks only to those on the same wavelength as you. –Jean Cocteau

Kill the critic within. Be persuaded only by that in art which speaks violently to the sexuality of your soul. By that which elicits an immediate and spontaneous moral erection. –Jean Cocteau

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it. –Jean Cocteau

Be a constant outrage to modesty. There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind. –Jean Cocteau

...love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong

The end will come quickly now, my love. There is a pain beyond pain, an agony so intense, it shocks the mind into instant beauty. We will find immortality together, and they will remember me through you.

-Vincent Price in the House of Wax