Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.