No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.