“Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.”
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.