Jean Cocteau's Quote - Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. – Jean Cocteau

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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. - Jean Cocteau

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. – Jean Cocteau

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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. – Jean Cocteau

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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. – Jean Cocteau

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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. – Jean Paul Richter

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I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. – Pink

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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. – Thomas Wolfe

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A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers. – Jerry Saltz

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We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. – Swami Vivekananda

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