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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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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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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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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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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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