One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

Art is science made flesh.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.