Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

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.

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!

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