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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.

Jean Cocteau

You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Comfortable Fear Luxury Money Play Reward
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Poison Reading Remove Temptation Writing Yourself
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
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
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Feeling Goodness Motivational Music Mystery Object
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Display Disturb Myself Paint Writing
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Imitation Ourselves Public
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth

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