There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.
The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
Art is science made flesh.
I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.
In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
Respect movements, flee schools.
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.
Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.
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