Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.