Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".
Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.
I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.