Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever. — Paul Valery Genius Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Artist Copy Share Image
My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.” — Paul Valéry Art Copy Share Image
“What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for… — Paul Valery Chemistry Copy Share Image
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally… — Paul Valery Equality Copy Share Image
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. — Paul Valery Future Copy Share Image
