Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

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

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.