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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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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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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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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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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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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
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