"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture." ― Jean Cocteau Topic(s): Art Tags: about, artist, cannot, speak More From Jean Cocteau "I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." "A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses." "The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth." More In Art "You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."― William Hazlitt "Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."― John Updike "The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."― Friedrich Nietzsche