"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced."
"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
