The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

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

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.