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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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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 Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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Art is science made flesh.
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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 hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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