Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

I am the vampire at my own veins.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present