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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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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously. – Jean Cocteau

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Drugs
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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. – Jean Cocteau

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

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Art
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before. – Vidal Sassoon

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Art

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Art

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. – Jackson Pollock

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Art

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso

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Art

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from ones enemies. – Leon Trotsky

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In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships. – Edgar Cayce

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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didnt quite have perhaps the drive or, I dont know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. – David Hockney

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