One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.