The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Joy always came after pain.