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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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I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.
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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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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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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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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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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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My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
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one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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