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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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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. – Jean Cocteau

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The idea is, if I cant heal from my art, then how can you heal? – Maynard James Keenan

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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. – Joan Miro

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