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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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The cinema is death at work.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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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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