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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
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Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.
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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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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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Art is science made flesh.
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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