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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Jean Cocteau

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
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
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
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
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Difference Follow Myself Road Room
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
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
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
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
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
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

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