Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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