Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

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