The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

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

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

My only politics have been friendship.