Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

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

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Art is science in the flesh.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.