a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object. |
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 |
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. |
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. |
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. |
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. |
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. |