Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine