"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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― Jean Cocteau
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- "I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another."
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- "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."― Pablo Picasso
- "Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."― Theodor Adorno
- "Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."― William Hazlitt