One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.