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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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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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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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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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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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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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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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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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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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