More quotes by Jean Cocteau

"Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
"Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!"
"The poet doesn't invent. He listens."
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"