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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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