78 quotes found
“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
“The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.”
“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something o...”
“You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”
“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”
“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?”
“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
“The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre w...”
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
“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 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.”
“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”
“The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.”
“Life is a horizontal fall.”
“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”
“Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.”
“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...”
