The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!