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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
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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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
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
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
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
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Difficult Earth Live Serious
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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Disappoint Experience Friendship Love Short

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