A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
JEAN COCTEAUA true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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