We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.

A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.