Cognition reigns but does not rule.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.