Jean Cocteau Quotes

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

I want to be cutting-edge.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Cheap Trick have always prided ourselves on being groundbreaking.

A true artist is always out of his time.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

I like people who push the envelope.

I believe I was ahead of my time.

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

James Cameron has always been great about changing the rules.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

I always want to be on the cutting edge.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

I don't like to say something's weird when it's innovative and fresh.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

The most successful people are so original.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.