Erik Satie Quotes

Étude pour un buste de M. Erik SATIE peint par lui-même, avec une pensée: je suis venu au monde très jeune dans un temps très vieux.

nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.

I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless)."

Modéré, je vous prie.

D'une manière très particulière.

Alone, for a moment.

Munissez-vous de clairvoyance.

I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.

Comme un rossignol qui aurait mal aux dents.

Wonder about yourself.

Seul, pendant un instant.

Postulez en vous-même.

On the first movement of Claude Debussy's La Mer, From Dawn to Noon: " Ah, my dear friend, there's one particular moment between half past ten and a quarter to eleven that I found stunning!" (with slight variations in phrasing and translation)

In a very particular way.

Provide yourself with shrewdness.