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Quote by Jean Cocteau
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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

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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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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity. – Thomas A. Edison

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Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art. – Jerry Saltz

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We have art in order not to die of the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I dont want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. – Ernst Fischer

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