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- 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.
- We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
- I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
- It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
- Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
- If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
- The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
- The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
- There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
- What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
- The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
- Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.
- Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
- It is not inspiration; it is expiration.
- When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
- Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
- One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.
- Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
- There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
- Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation
- Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
- Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.
- One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
- Without resistance you can do nothing
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