A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
