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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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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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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.