In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

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

Civilization is what makes you sick.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

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