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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

Jean Cocteau

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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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Drive Myself Name Poetry Simplicity Wait
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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Character Dreams Friendship Habit Live Regret Stranger Surprise
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word

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