The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.