The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

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.

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.