Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

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

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.