It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope. - Jean Cocteau

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart?
It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction, the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.