I Too Am A Government.

It Is Fatal For Art If It Is Forced Into Official Respectability And Condemned To Sterile Mediocrity.

Beauty, Like Truth, Is Relative To The Time When One Lives And To The Individual Who Can Grasp It.

The State Is Not Competent In Artistic Matters... When The State Leaves Us Free, It Will Have Carried Out Its Duty.

France Is The Only Nation In Which Astoundingly Small Numbers Of Civilized Patrons Reside.

Without Trying To Clear Up The Degree Of Correctness Of A Qualification Which No One, One Must Hope, Will Be Asked To Understand Exactly, I Will Limit Myself To A Few Words Of Explanation To Cut Short Any Misunderstandings.