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Jean Cocteau1889–1963

What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist’s presence makes itself felt above that of the model.

Jean Cocteau on art

“De la Ligne” in La Difficulté d’Etre [The Difficulty of Being] (1947)

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