Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write
Jean Anouilh
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Rene Char
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
Raymond Radiguet
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
Marcel Proust
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.
Barres
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
Anna Magnani
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Simone Signoret
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Ingrid Bergman
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Mark Twain
He without fear is king of the world.
E E Eddison
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
Colette
At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.
Jean-Pierre Melville
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Jean Genet
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Max Jacob
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.