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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

~Jean Cocteau

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Life is a horizontal fall.

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The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

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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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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

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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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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: July 5th, 1889

Died: October 11th, 1963

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