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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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