Quotes by Jean Cocteau

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.