Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

He shrugged. 'I know you're the type''Type?''The type that doesn't let things go

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

our product will speak for itself if it's that good and your fan base will come and people will want it. Having the right people in your circle is very important to help support that.

He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!