“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
— Jean Cocteau
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“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
— Jean Cocteau
Author: Jean Cocteau
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“Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.”
— Jean Cocteau
Author: Jean Cocteau
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“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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“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
— Jean Cocteau
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“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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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”
— Jean Cocteau
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“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
— Jean Cocteau
Author: Jean Cocteau
Category: art
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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”
— Jean Cocteau
Author: Jean Cocteau
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“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
— Jean Cocteau
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“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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“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
— Jean Cocteau
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