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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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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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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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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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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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one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
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