Suffering gives us no special rights.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.