A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece. |
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? |
Civilization is what makes you sick. |
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. |
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. |
I shut my eyes in order to see. |
I shut my eyes in order to see. |
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. |
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble. |
In marriage, the greater cuckold of the two is the lover |
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. |
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. |
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. |
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. |
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! |