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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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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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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Art is science made flesh.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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