Paul Valéry quotes

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Paul Valéry

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valéry

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valéry

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valéry

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valéry

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valéry

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valéry

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Valéry

The trouble with out times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valéry

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Valéry

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valéry

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Paul Valéry

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

Paul Valéry

At times I think and at times I am.

Paul Valéry

A painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Paul Valéry

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Paul Valéry

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

Paul Valéry