Jean Cocteau , French director

said about Effect, Job, Light, Literature, Originality, Rest, Spontaneity, Youth...

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"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."
- Jean Cocteau

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