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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Art is science made flesh.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
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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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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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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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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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The cinema is death at work.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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