I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.