You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.