An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
JEAN COCTEAUAll good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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