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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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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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Art is science made flesh.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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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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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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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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My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
Jean Cocteau
You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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