I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

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

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.