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Quote by Jean Cocteau
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can dis

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to ones preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. – Jean Cocteau

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design
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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Jean Cocteau
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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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Home
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. – Salvador Dali

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Art

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. – Franz Liszt

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Art

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldnt say any other way – things I had no words for. – Georgia OKeeffe

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Art

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Art

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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isnt organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. – Ivan Illich

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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. – Orison Swett Marden

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Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go. – George C. Wallace

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Dreams seem to have a will of their own. – Henry Reed

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