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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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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The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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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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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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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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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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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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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 Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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