The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.