To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.