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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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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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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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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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