Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.