Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
What matters in art is not thinking but making.
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.