47 Quotes by Stéphane Mallarme

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.

A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

All thoughts emit a throw of dice

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.