The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.