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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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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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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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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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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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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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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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