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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.

Jean Cocteau

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Choice Death Kill Option Save Torture
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Artist Copy Job Order Original
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
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
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Myself Mystery Organization Pretend
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
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.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself

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