A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
JEAN COCTEAUMystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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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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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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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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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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