Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.