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Jean Cocteau Inspirational Quotes (126)

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Art is science made flesh.
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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
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The cinema is death at work.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
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How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.
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