"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail." ― Jean Cocteau Topic(s): Art Tags: emotion, resulting More From Jean Cocteau "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?" "You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive." "An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture." More In Art "A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."― Eugene Ionesco "Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference."― David Mamet "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."― Charles Horton Cooley