The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.