The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
JEAN COCTEAUFrench people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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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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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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