Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
JEAN COCTEAUArt 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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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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