We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
JEAN COCTEAUCultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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