True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
From Jean Cocteau
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
4 perspectives
3 perspectives
1 perspectives