When you're nearing 35 going 'Hey Dad I can't make these payments ' just isn't cool.
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and...
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love as an ascetic loves the...
The better a work is the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who...
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original...
There is no truth. There is only perception.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
All one's inventions are true you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a...
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is...
Caught up in life you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much....
Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself...
I believe that if one always looked at the skies one would end up with wings.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears...
One must always hope when one is desperate and doubt when one hopes.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope even the...
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges France for sun women for love life...
To be stupid selfish and have good health are three requirements for...
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation invisible and...
The future is the worst thing about the present.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success...
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock he must...
Life must be a constant education one must learn everything from speaking to...
The heart like the stomach wants a varied diet.
A friend who dies it's something of you who dies.
The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to...
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art...
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies and the...
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith faith and...
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Of all lies art is the least untrue.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in...
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone...
Oh if I had been loved at the age of seventeen what an idiot I would be...
