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.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.