46 Quotes by Alexander Theroux

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.