I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.