Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing..

Nothing beautiful can be summarized..

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminal….

Sometime I think; and sometime I am..

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be..

History is the science of what never happens twice..

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one..

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conce….

The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it wil….

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves..

A poem is never finished, only abandoned..

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh..

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….

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of li….

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condi….

It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the f….

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will..

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives..

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts..

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees..

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary..