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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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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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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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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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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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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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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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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Art is science made flesh.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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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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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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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The cinema is death at work.
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