Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.