Paul Valery
Paul Valery
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valérywas a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction, his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 October 1871
CountryFrance
art lying science
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
art eye men
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.
art men ideas
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
art poetry harmony
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
art poetry disappear
If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.
art poetry fruit
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
spiritual art ideas
Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.
art poetry
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
art ideas poetry
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
art abandon artist
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
art abandoned art-is
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
art business people
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
art destiny men
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies.
simple
Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless.