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.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

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

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

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.

A Dandy does nothing.