Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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