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The joy of the young is to disobey.

Jean Cocteau

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Display Disturb Myself Paint Writing
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Death Live Myself Teaching Try
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Acceptance Confession Happiness Hate Quite Secret Simplicity Try Understand
The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Force Habit Learning Object Place Poet Position Soul Tragedy Visible World
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Himself Poet Rose True

The joy of the young is to disobey.

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