What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.