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The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. - J

The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. – Jean Cocteau

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. – Jean Cocteau

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Habits
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Jean Cocteau
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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Jean Cocteau
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Museums, Galleries
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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. – Henry James

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Museums, Galleries

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. – Pablo Picasso

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Museums, Galleries

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. – Robert Hewison

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Museums, Galleries

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. – Michel Leiris

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Museums, Galleries

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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. – Benito Mussolini

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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. – Theodore Bikel

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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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