The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done. — Jean Cocteau
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? — Jean Cocteau
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation. — Jean Cocteau
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. — Jean Cocteau
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. — Jean Cocteau
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique. — Jean Cocteau