Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

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

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.