Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.
To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.