What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Life is to blame for everything.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?