"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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Art
― 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."
- "The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
- "After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."
More In Art
- "Many say an art dealer running a museum is a ‘conflict of interest.’ But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest."― Jerry Saltz
- "I’m free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don’t try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don’t compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that."― Erykah Badu
- "My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."― Robert Carlyle