To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass. I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau Art is more Godlike than science. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. And what comes with that self-confidence is an essential indifference to what the voices of the time may say about him. He knows what his value is and that the future will agree.