The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

A little too much is just enough for me.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

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

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.