Occupation: Poet Birth: October 30, 1871 Death: July 20, 1945
History is the science of what never happens twice..
What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will..
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts..
Sometimes I think and other times I am..
Everything changes but the avant-garde..
If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear..
The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance, and….
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas..
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing..
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees..
The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary t….
Science is a collection of successful recipes..
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist..
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences..
If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish..
Sometime I think; and sometime I am..
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh..
Power without abuse loses its charm..
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves..
Nothing beautiful can be summarized..
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature..