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 COCTEAUI feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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