“Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.”

“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”

“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”

“What is art? Prostitution.”

“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.”

“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”

“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”

“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.”

“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.”

“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.”

“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”