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.

Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.