Quotes from Julien Torma

Nature is only another chimera.

True poetry is embarrassing.

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

Nature is only another chimera.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

True poetry is embarrassing.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

Whiteness is filthy.

It's not the light that's attracting me, but the darkness that's driving me on.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

The best jokes are uncalled-for.

When the house is blown up, there's nothing to shut or open.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

The object is that which is objected against me.

I don't know whether there are numbers. And you?

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.