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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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 is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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