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Art is science made flesh.
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 audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.
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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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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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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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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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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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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.
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