The only way to kill death is through photography.
JEAN COCTEAUSince the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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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.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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