Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.

A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.