“Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself ”
21 quotes in our collection
“Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself ”
“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born”
“I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water”
“As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work”
“Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.”
“It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.”
“Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul”
“There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan”
“In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it ”
“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create”
“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else”
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction”
“Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry”
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable”
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself”
“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art”
“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness”
“Inspiration comes of working every day”
“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed”
“I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old”