Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

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.

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

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

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work