You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.