“Our deceit will give us style, mastery, that dignity, that lofty and severe quality Verlaine spoke of.”

Suggesting that artistic restraint and transformation create style rather than simple confession · Essay, The Tree of Life

• Art
• Skill
• Style

“All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to subtle effects, an asceticism of the imagination.”

Describing artistic discipline as restraint that allows subtler imaginative effects to emerge · Essay, Speaking to the Psaltery

• Art
• Imagination
• Skill