He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

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

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.