The only way to kill death is through photography.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.

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

Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.