In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.