Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

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

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.