Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.