We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
JEAN COCTEAUYouth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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 ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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