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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful wi

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

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

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 poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Ordinary
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Jean Cocteau
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Youve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Death
Author
Jean Cocteau
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
good
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Jean Cocteau
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Other Quotes from
Art
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Art

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. – George Jean Nathan, House of Satan

Category:
Art

Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers songs and so forth. – Noam Chomsky

Category:
Art

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. – John Keats

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Art

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Coffee falls into the stomach … ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop … the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink… – Honore de Balzac

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Coffee (or Tea)

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and… I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work. – P. J. Harvey

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My dreams are of water. And my nightmares. – Siouxsie Sioux

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I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didnt think that, there would be something wrong with me. Im grateful and thankful for what Ive got. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Business