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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

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Youve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. – Jean Cocteau

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. – William Wordsworth

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All art is but imitation of nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Painting is by nature a luminous language. – Robert Delaunay

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I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. – Maurice Sendak

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I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Ralph Ellison

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One evil in old age is, that as your time is come, you think every little illness is the beginning of the end. When a man expects to be arrested, every knock at the door is an alarm. – Sydney Smith, letter to Robert Wilmot-Horton, 1836 February 8th

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A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. – Bible

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