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Quote by Jean Cocteau
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can dis

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau

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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. – Jean Cocteau

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I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. – Alanis Morissette

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. – Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

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Art holds fast when all else is lost. – German Proverb

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Really I dont like human nature unless all candied over with art. – Virginia Woolf

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Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. – Frank Wedekind

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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. – Robert Creeley

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I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. – Mark Twain

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My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guys dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We werent taken with the fact our dad was a musician. – Branford Marsalis

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