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

Jean Cocteau

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
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
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Control Feeling Myself
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
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
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
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
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Artist Copy Job Order Original

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