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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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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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My only politics have been friendship.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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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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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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