What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

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

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

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

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Respectable people... What bastards!