Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.Jean Cocteau
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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