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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Jean Cocteau

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
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Animal Cat Enjoyment Home Love Myself Soul Visible
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
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
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Creation Force Himself Language Live Manipulation People Poem Poet Understand
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Children Mad Patience Poet Try
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
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Forever God Infinity Mystery Ourselves
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art Artist Discussion Plant Talk Voice
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
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Comfortable Fear Luxury Money Play Reward
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young

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