Le bon Dieu est dans le détail .

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Exuberance is better than taste.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times.

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.