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Quote by Jean Cocteau
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time t

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. – Jean Cocteau

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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau

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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. – Jean Cocteau

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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. – Charles Baudelaire

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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art. – Bliss Carman

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Pure innovation is more gross than error. – George Chapman

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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. – Johann von Goethe

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