To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

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

Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

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

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.