The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.