The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
The morality of art is in its very beauty.
Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.