A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.