An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Whither should we aim if not towards God?

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.