The poet doesn't invent. He listens. - Jean Cocteau

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."

"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

"The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

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