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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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