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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

Jean Cocteau

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
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
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
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Death Live Myself Teaching Try
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Difference Follow Myself Road Room
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
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
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth

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