More quotes by Jean Cocteau

"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."
"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!"
"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."