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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading...

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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight...

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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