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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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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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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 public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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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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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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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 composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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