Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?