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.
JEAN COCTEAUCultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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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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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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