Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

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

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

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