Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.
Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.
The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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