Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.