Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

- Stephane Mallarme

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

- Stephane Mallarme

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

- Stephane Mallarme

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

- Stephane Mallarme

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

- Stephane Mallarme

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

- Stephane Mallarme

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

- Stephane Mallarme

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

- Stephane Mallarme

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

- Stephane Mallarme