Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
JEAN COCTEAUAll good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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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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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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