Paul Valery Art Quotes - (8 quotes)

Paul Valery - From the Ego category:

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Expression category:

We must always apologize for talking painting. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Freedom category:

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Future category:

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Poetry category:

My poems mean what people take them to mean. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Seeing category:

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Seeing category:

What Degas called "a way of seeing" must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Work category:

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. (Paul Valery)