"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness."
-Jean Cocteau
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"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.“
-Jean Cocteau
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"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
-Jean Cocteau
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"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."
-Jean Cocteau
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"The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up."
-Jean Cocteau
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"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
-Jean Cocteau
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"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
-Jean Cocteau
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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