Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Max Jacob

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French poet Max Jacob.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Max Jacob

Max Jacob was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. — © Max Jacob
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
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.
Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.
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.
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