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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Jean Cocteau

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art Artist Discussion Plant Talk Voice
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
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
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Appearance Deep Perspective Time Work
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
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Drive Myself Name Poetry Simplicity Wait
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Achievement Elegant Hope Life Live Poetry
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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Best Friendship God Lost Mercy Myself
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition

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