Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.