The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

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

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.