The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
JEAN COCTEAUThe public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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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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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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