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

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

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

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

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

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.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.