Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.