Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

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

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.