Max Jacob Quotes

• Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

  Max Jacob

  Art, Games, Play

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• The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

  Max Jacob

  Reality, Expression, Joy

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• Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

  Max Jacob

  Father, Animal, Men

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• Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

  Max Jacob

  Love, Friendship, Want

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• What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

  Max Jacob

  Reality, Giving, Illusion

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• Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
  Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

  Max Jacob

  Mean, Reality, Doe

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