“It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.”
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. ”
“Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.”
“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.”
“We all romanticize the people we adore.”
“It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again.”