The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.