More quotes by Jean Cocteau

"Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
"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!"
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."