Joris-Karl Huysmans Zitate

„Wahrhaftig, in solchen Zeiten wie diesen sind die Gärtner die einzigen, die echten Künstler.“

„Als er den letzten Schluck getrunken hatte, ging er in sein Kabinett zurück und ließ sich von dem Diener die Schildkröte nachtragen, die sich partout nicht bewegen wollte“

“Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.”

“Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God… It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.”

“I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.”

“I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove… that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.”

“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”

“Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.”

“How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.”