I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
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.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.