My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should…

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Tru…

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.