All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.