Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

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

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

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

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.