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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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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 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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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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 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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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