To Be Simple Is No Small Matter.

Sometimes I Think I'm Liquefying Like An Old Camembert.

Abstraction Can Provide Stumbling Blocks For People Of Strange Intelligence.

He Loved A Book Because It Was A Book; He Loved Its Odor, Its Form, Its Title. What He Loved In A Manuscript Was Its Old Illegible Date, The Bizarre And Strange Gothic Characters, The Heavy Gilding Which Loaded Its Drawings. It Was Its Pages Covered With Dust — Dust Of Which He Breathed The Sweet And Tender Perfume With Delight.

Be Orderly And Disciplined In Daily Life, Like A Good Bourgeois, So That I Might Be Wild And Violent In My Art.

Nothing Is More Humiliating Than To See Idiots Succeed In Enterprises We Have Failed In.