Erik Satie Citations
Erik Satie: Citations en anglais
Quoted by Rollo H. Myers (1968). Erik Satie, p.135. New York: Dover.
See also Socrate for the context of this quote.
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“nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.”
about artist/model Suzanne Valadon at the end of their love affair
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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.
Written to accompany a self-portrait caricature drawn by himself - see image
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“I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.”
The man in a velvet suit Lucy Daniel Telegraph Review January 25 2014.
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Mary McAuliffe: Twilight of the Belle Epoque (2014), p. 111.
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“Provide yourself with shrewdness.”
Munissez-vous de clairvoyance.
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