The artist must know how far to go too far..

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original..

Without resistance you can do nothing.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ….

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefo….

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you..

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. ….

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards..

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away..

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind..

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one canno….

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is ….

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility..

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things w….

The only way to kill death is through photography..

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the ….

It was the East that should have sent us missionaries..

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul..

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises….

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes fri….

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence..