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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.

Jean Cocteau

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Character Dreams Friendship Habit Live Regret Stranger Surprise
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
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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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
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
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
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
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Creation Force Himself Language Live Manipulation People Poem Poet Understand
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
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
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing

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