Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.