Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
lies tso-art
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
history ignorance&stupidity thetimes time
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
tso-life work
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
humor tso-funny
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
tso-art
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature.
She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances
beauty
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois
democracy
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
happiness health
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
inventions poetry
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
dance language thetimes time
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man
laughter strength
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
perfume ruins tso-love
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
managers
In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.
mediocrity
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier
men
Poetry is as exact a science as geometry
poetry
My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science.
science
I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
speech
Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
dance music speech
Success is a result, not a goal
success
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
tso-life worth writing