The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
JEAN COCTEAUA true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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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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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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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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