Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
The joy of the young is to disobey
Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.
My only politics have been friendship.
You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
Find first, seek later.
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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