Genius is childhood recalled at will.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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 the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.