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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.