Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.