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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful wi

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 day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – 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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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. – George Santayana

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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. – Dave Barry

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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. – George Jean Nathan, House of Satan

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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. – Paul Chatfield

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. – African Proverb

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War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, were very unlikely to accept or recognize world peace even when we get it. – Bruce Sterling

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What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization. – Bertolt Brecht

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