It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
Jean CocteauDo not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.
Jean CocteauTrue realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean CocteauTake 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