78 quotes found
“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”
“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
“Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?”
“One sits down first one thinks afterwards.”
“The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.”
“A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, th...”
“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”
“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.”
“Paris, however―because of her purely fortuitous beauty, because of the old things which have become a part of her, because of her entanglement of buildings and tenements―Paris yields herself in dis...”
“I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.”
“At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstan...”
“A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.”
“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”
“The Louvre is like the morgue; one goes there to identify one’s friends.”
“Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”
“True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.”
“Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.”
