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Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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My only politics have been friendship.
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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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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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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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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Art is science made flesh.
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The cinema is death at work.
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Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.
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You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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