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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.

Jean Cocteau

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Beginning Born Death Deep Life Myself Perspective Rush Walk
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
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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Attitude Born Himself Mindset Wealth
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Himself Poet Rose True
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
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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Deep Difference History Illusion Myth Mythology Perspective Reality Truth

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