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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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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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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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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
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Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.
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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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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 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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My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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