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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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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 artist must know how far to go too far.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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