Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
JEAN COCTEAUThe 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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