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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. - Jean Coc

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. – Jean Cocteau

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

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

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Cats
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Other Quotes from
Art
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. – Oscar Wilde

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Art

Doing art… anything creative, is just a spiritual thing to do. I almost feel like every comic strip I do is sort of a little prayer. And I really feel like the only thing real is love. – Patrick McDonnell, “Super Soul Short: Inside the Mind Behind Mutts,” Super Soul

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Art

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when its all over. – Octavia Butler

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Art

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. – Andre Gide

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Art

Random Quotes

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

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Mistakes

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James

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Sympathy

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever. – E. M. Cioran

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Salvation

I wish I had coined the phrase tyranny of choice, but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them. – Susan Orlean

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Truth