The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

Without resistance you can do nothing

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation