More From Paul Valery
- "Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows."
- "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
- "A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
More In Art
- "All art is quite useless."― Oscar Wilde
- "A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor."― Helen Rowland
- "Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."― John Updike