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 COCTEAUArt is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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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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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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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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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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