Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

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.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.