I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.

A creator always needs excuses.

For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.

You exist only in what you do.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.