Jean Cocteau

"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."

"Be yourself. The world worships the original."

"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."

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

"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."