To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn’t even need to exist.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
The beautiful is always bizarre.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.