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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is n

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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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? – Jean Cocteau

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Luck
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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. – Jean Cocteau

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Death
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I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. – Michael Palin

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Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. Theres likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block – West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues – than in all of Amsterdams or Hamburgs galleries. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. – Doris Humphrey

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Art

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they cant articulate. – Mos Def

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No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. – Malcolm Bradbury

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I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldnt afford it. – Chaske Spencer

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