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Quote by Jean Cocteau
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in or

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

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

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! – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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Jean Cocteau
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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. – Jean Cocteau

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Automobiles
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Jean Cocteau
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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. – Francesco Guicciardini

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Mans natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. – Marquis De Sade

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Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. – James Fenton

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Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some. – Tina Turner

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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. – Gore Vidal

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Im really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. – John Templeton

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