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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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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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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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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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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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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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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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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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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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History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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My only politics have been friendship.
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