Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
I hate artists who are not of their time.
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.
Come to the edge, he said. They said, we are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came, he pushed them and they flew.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
Joy always came after pain.
One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
French painting today is the only school which counts only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great traditions, only it is full of life.
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