There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.

Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

When we love - we grow

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.