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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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History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.
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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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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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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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