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Jean Cocteau

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.

Jean Cocteau

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Jean Cocteau

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

Jean Cocteau

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Jean Cocteau

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Jean Cocteau

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Jean Cocteau

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Jean Nouvel

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

Jean Rostand

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.

Jeffrey Deitch

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

Jef I. Richards

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Jerry Saltz

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

Jerry Saltz

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

Jerry Saltz

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

Jerry Saltz

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Jerzy Kosinski

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Jerzy Kosinski

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Jessye Norman

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

Jimmy Carter

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Jim Davis

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Jim Henson

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Jim Hodges

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Jim Morrison

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Joan Miro

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Jodie Foster

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In art the best is good enough.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

John Berger

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Cheever

Art is the triumph over chaos.

John Ciardi

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Constable

The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

John Donne

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Ford

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

John Foster Dulles

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John F. Kennedy

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John Galliano

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

John James Audubon

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

John Keats

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Lasseter

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

John Ruskin

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

John Ruskin

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

John Singer Sargent

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

John Updike

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Wayne

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

John Wesley Powell

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.