Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

More Quotes By Stephane Mallarme

• Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.
• You don’t make a poem with ideas, but with words.
• The world exists to end up in a book.
• Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
• A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
• Dreams have as much influences as actions.
• Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented...
• It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
• To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.
• Poets don’t finish poems, they abandon them.
• Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.
• The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs...
• The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
• All thoughts emit a throw of dice
• The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.