It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

My only politics have been friendship.

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

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.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

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

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.