There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
From Gustave Flaubert
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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