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Jean Cocteau

Quote of Jean Cocteau - Take a commonplace, clean it and...


Biography - Jean Cocteau:

French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1963
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.



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Mettez un lieu commun en place, nettoyez-le, frottez-le, éclairez-le de telle sorte qu'il frappe avec sa jeunesse et avec la même fraîcheur, le même jet qu'il avait à sa source, vous ferez œuvre de poète. Tout le reste est littérature.




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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.





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Jean Cocteau also said...


Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.





Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.





When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.





Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far you can go too far.





The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.





The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.












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