What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model... With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

The only way to kill death is through photography.

I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love