“Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.”

“En France, on a d'abord considéré la bonté comme une forme de la bêtise, la méchanceté comme une forme de l'intelligence. Maintenant la politesse est considérée comme du temps perdu.”

“Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!”

“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”

“An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.”

“La mode, c'est ce qui se démode.”

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”