Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.