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Jean Cocteau on Success

1889–1963 France

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

On his election to Académie Française (1955)

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Cocteau (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.