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Jean Cocteau

"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Music gives strength to the spirit."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"The art of politics is knowing what to do next."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."

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Jean Cocteau
"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul."

Love

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

Success

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Jean Cocteau
"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."

News

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Jean Cocteau
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."

Literature

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Jean Cocteau
"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."

Friendship

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Jean Cocteau
"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."

Art

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Jean Cocteau
"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

Death

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Jean Cocteau
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"

Success

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Jean Cocteau
"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."

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Jean Cocteau
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."

Habit

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