Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

What is art? Prostitution.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.