Henri Michaux famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels
-- Henri Michaux

#Angel #Demon #Badgers
It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.
-- Henri Michaux

#Men #Dead Man
The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!
-- Henri Michaux

#Long #Choices #Given
The Sorbonne should be razed and Chris Marker put in its place.
-- Henri Michaux

#Should #Markers
The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
-- Henri Michaux

#Bird #Tree #Doe
With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?
-- Henri Michaux

#Faults
He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.
-- Henri Michaux

#Voiceless #Madmen
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.
-- Henri Michaux

#Intellectual #Insane #Pay
He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.
-- Henri Michaux
A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.
-- Henri Michaux

#Men #Together #Stones
You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.
-- Henri Michaux

#Important #Admire
One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.
-- Henri Michaux

#Men #Color #Two
It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.
-- Henri Michaux

#Drawing #Desire #Adults
I do not know how to make poems
-- Henri Michaux

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