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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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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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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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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
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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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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 artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
Jean Cocteau
The cinema is death at work.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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