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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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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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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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