"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground."
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Source: Diary of an Unknown. Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.
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